Originally Posted by
ImmortalPig
Tbh you are retarded if you think a buy a 6 year old game for 2.5b is going to be profitable because you can give it away free with the xbone. There's no way that's possible.
Assume xbone owners generate $5000 of profit for microsoft (which by the way, means they need to be buying live or games, so none of this "xbone just for MC" shit) over console lifetime, that means minecraft needs to generate at least half a million xbone sales (on it's own) to break even.
Now remember, there have been 3m xbone sales so far, do you really think giving out free minecraft (especially considering there are over 14m minecraft sales already) is going to generate a 16% increase in sales?
let's say MS goal is to boost Xbone sales.
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/18...n-vs-5-million
and their end goal is to get let's say
4 mil more consoles sold.
price tag is 400 usd
add subs = +60 usd
games = +60*15% usd each we don't know exact %, but let's assume 15 % = 9 usd
so let's say our average joe buys one game per month on average or atleast 6 per year so it's 6-12
12* 9 = 108 usd
2 500 000 000 / ( 400 + 60 + 10
= 4 401 408 which means
in average scenario to break off they need to sell a little more than
4 mil copies, and they will start to turn profit just by console sales.
now, we don't know the average life cycle of next gen consoles, but let's assume it's going to be 5 years, so the more consoles they sell, the more money they will get from subs and games.
(108+60)*5 = 840 + initial 400 = 1240 usd average profit froma lifecycle of ONE sold console.
multiply this number on planned amount of consoles they plan to sell, and you will get quite interesting numbers, and this is the most important part, NOT THE CONSOLE SALES ITSELF
so if MS plan to outsell ps4 on 10 mil mark, they will get 12 400 000 000 = 12 bil usd from next generation consoles on very average.
AND don't forget, than now ALL money that comes from minecraft goes to microsoft, so when you buy MC for
PS4/PC you give MS +20 usd and also
+7 usd for PE (pocket edition)
i have no stats on how much it does sell, but i'm pretty sure,
that minecraft as a marketing tool to boost sales of xbone sounds very logical.
Originally Posted by
ImmortalPig
Now on to your hate of dayz "hurr durr not enough teamwork" it's not that kind of game, do you expect all mods to be the same as their original game? I bet you hate on dota because you can't even build mine a gold mine or macro an army...
i didn't like wc3 in the first place as it was too tiny, SupCom all the way, or Planet annihilation now, doesn't really matter
Last edited by snake; Sep 19, 2014 at 02:54 PM.