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When Microsoft bought Minecraft, it sent a daze throughout the unabridged gaming industry. Non only was the biggest game on the market at the time now owned by the mega-conglomerate, but it helped solidify Phil Spencer and the company'due south initiative to prove that the Xbox make was going strong. Of course, Xbox would later on welcome Bethesda and Activision Blizzard, merely, at the time, the Minecraft acquisition was a mammoth deal. Here is how much Microsoft paid to purchase Minecraft and its evolution studio Mojang.

To acquire Minecraft and Mojang, Microsoft paid $2.5 billion. Included in this transaction were, of course, all of the rights to the Minecraft IP and the evolution studio that works on it, Mojang. The game'southward creator, Markus "Notch" Persson, was not retained during the buyout.

It is expected that since the deal was finalized in 2022, Minecraft has sold over 100 million game copies between mobile, Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, accounting for virtually $1.five billion on but game sales lone. That does not include sales from the spinoff Minecraft Dungeons, digital currency sales on the Minecraft Marketplace, or trade figures from clothes, toys, and other physical knickknacks. It is believed that Microsoft has more than than bankrupt fifty-fifty on their Minecraft purchase, although we have no concrete announcement that this is true.