Nintendo is offering a special price on a Wii U bundle, plus a few Wii U games.
Minecraft annual revenue reportedly makes around $100 million, according to an entry on the Redmond-based tech giant employee’s LinkedIn page.
Jeff Y., who then served as game developer before being promoted to senior leadership a year after, reported the figure and said that he helped to develop key features for the game and solve many bugs, which led to increased engagement, quality, and maintaining usability (Shoutout to @bpgprad222 on X for the findings)
I think $100 million would be an understatement. Minecraft Mobile alone generated around $100 million of revenue last year ( https://www.statista.com/st... The PC and console versions alone probably rake in considerable revenues too, maybe more or less than mobile.
Lol!
100 Million annual is what Minecraft has been making in revenue just on Mobile.
It´s the best selling game in history with more than 300 million copies sold across all platforms supported.
Minecraft literally prints money!
A studio which makes all that money and has over 600 employees can’t even add multiple mobs instead they make you choose one. And they lied about the SDGP and Ray Tracing is nowhere to be seen on console.
They can’t even get a current gen version of Minecraft on the door for crying out loud.
They're on easy mode. Mojang doesn't need to put in the effort cause they living comfy off that MC money. Mind you it's been that way since Notch was still with them. Dood it took em like literal years of being indecisive to finally add in lanterns. They've never had any actual idea what to do with this game.
You're completely correct. Also look at obscures now hidden response to this comment, dude is unhinged af and he's telling others to get help. Oh the irony lmfao.
Also dunno why he's trying to credit all this to MS, minecraft was huge long before MS and would have remained huge regardless.
@CrashMania
"Also dunno why he's trying to credit all this to MS, minecraft was huge long before MS and would have remained huge regardless."
BS!
Your fallacious claims are based on nothing but complete ignorance.
By the time Xbox acquired Mojang back in 2014, Minecraft sold about 55 Million copies since its release in 2009.
https://www.polygon.com/201...
Now after 9+ years as an Xbox first party studio Mojang has sold more than 300 Million Minecraft copies, and has become the best-selling video game in *history* as an Xbox first party game thanks to no other but Phil Spencer!
https://www.theverge.com/20...
And assuming that you´re new on N4G, here´s what this community though about Mojang´s acquisition by Microsoft:
https://n4g.com/news/158578...
Oh yes... for some people on NG4, the very idea of Xbox acquiring new studios were considered "bad for the gaming industry" way before the brand start and acquiring whole publishers like Bethesda and ABK.
Now, those who bet that MS were making a bad move by listen to Phil Spencer and acquire Mojang, are having crow dinner.
And some people still wonder how Phil made it to the Top position he is today as CEO of gaming at Microsoft. Love him or hate him, the man is visionary.
So tldr obscure, ms buy hugely successful pre-established IP that remains hugely successful.
Guess we can't all be surprised at the sheer common sense in that, but also since that's all MS can do, throw billions around to buy existing multiplatform IPs or games mid development as they haven't been able to produce their own good IP in over a decade :)
The guy calls Phil Spencer a visionary, just hilarious. Such a great visionary that's led Xbox to last place for over a decade, a collapse in console sales, the series is getting outsold by the X1, one of the most underwhelming consoles in history man, stagnant gamepass numbers, how can be a visionary? The delusion is beyond baffling lol.
@CrashMania
"The guy calls Phil Spencer a visionary, just hilarious. Such a great visionary that's led Xbox to last place for over a decade, a collapse in console sales, the series is getting outsold by the X1, one of the most underwhelming consoles in history man, stagnant gamepass numbers, how can be a visionary? The delusion is beyond baffling lol."
Well, Phil Spencer is at the TOP position in gaming in a Trillion dollar company, making more money in a year that you would make in your entire life.
The facts are that Phil still call all the shots at Microsoft while Ryan got fired right after he shamelessly failed in his attempts to prevent and block the ABK deal.
So, while Playstation is bragging about huge and incredible sales numbers, they´re at the same time cancelling games, getting people fired in droves, shutting down studios, putting focus on GaaS and remasters and has a total number of zero first party games announced for 2024. Yay?
While on Xbox everybody got promoted, ABK is now Xbox property and Xbox gamers have at least 5 first party games to looking forward to in 2024.
Nah, I rather stick with Xbox, thank you. You might continue and celebrate console sales, I´ll be celebrating the games!
Those are the cold hard facts.
Do what you do.
There's no point responding to you obscure in all honesty, you're easily the most delusional and biggest fanboy that I've seen in my brief-ish time on this site, so I'll leave it with this final post.
'Well, Phil Spencer is at the TOP position in gaming in a Trillion dollar company, making more money in a year that you would make in your entire life.'
As is basically every executive in any medium or large business compard to 99.9% of the planets population, this isn't the kind of gotcha you think it is.
'I´ll be celebrating the games!'
Must have been a rough decade for you then, I'll be enjoying rebirth early next year, but I guess according to you 3rd party games no longer count in an argument, goalposts moved all the time just like your beloved MS.
'Ryan got fired'
I'm not a massive fan of Ryan's policies and Gaas push, I won't miss him, but where is your evidence for this?
You keep licking senpai Phil's boots and emperor MS in their push to turn gaming in to a subscription, streaming only drab wasteland with 0 creativity, really fighting the good fight. I'd rather continue to celebrate what Sony and Nintendo have done for gaming in the last 25-30 years, which is magnitudes more than anything MS have ever 'contributed'. By far the least popular gaming brand of the 3 and in continued decline.
I think obscure doesn't understand when a company swoops in with a large amount of cash to purchase a game that was already a hit and the higher ups, not used to having money thrown at them, jump at the chance to cash those checks.
It's the same thing another American company did. Facebook saw beat saber printing money and swooped in as well. But just like Minecraft, nothing else has been created by these developers and nothing great in updates. They just sit on their ass collecting revenue.
Beat Saber 2? Nope. Minecraft 2? Nope. Higher fidelity and ray tracing? Nope.
But he thinks Phil is a genius while spewing outright lies. Like I said in another article, same thing, different Xbox day. Where truth doesn't exist in their minds.
That should be more than cheap enough for many.
Incredible value.
Nintendo Land is also a pretty decent party game.
$26 more dollars.
Still too expensive for a Nintendo console in my opinion. Especially one that only gets like 6 games a year.
wii u is the only family console really.