And this is the bewildering thing. Microsoft aren't a private company, they are publicly traded and are accountable to shareholders. The Mojang acquisition makes no sense because there's no clear way to recoup the investment unless they sell it on.
Konami, not Kojima, own the trademarks to Silent Hill. Even if they recruited Kojima, they couldn't make a Silent Hill together without Konami's approval.
It was Ordnance Survey who produce the Minecraft version of the British Isles, they are a fully self-funded Agency and they produced the Minecraft map using existing data.
I don't understand the math of 1.6m sales at $60 for Microsoft to break even. That's $96m dollars which is 4% of what Microsoft paid. This is atrocity flawed by Minecraft doesn't cost $60 and never has and, arguably, the vas majority of people who were interested in Minecraft bought it before Microsoft bought Mojang, By my reckoning, Microsoft need to sell 125 million copies (from purchase) to recoup the purchases price.
I meant Silent Hill, this was from an IGN video, but even so the numbers don't add up at 60$, puzzling, I am starting to believe it's yens, not dollars we are talking about.
I'm trying to look up the Silent Hills sales history, and things weren't looking to good. Silent Hill: Downpour looks like it was the last title. I've never even heard of it. Vgchartz (I know they suck) has it at 740,000 copies. The previous title seems to be equally underwhelming in sales. It's not exactly like it's a big brand anymore.
That might not matter. Silent Hill is famous, it's a well established IP, and if they show an incredible game people will buy it in droves --
@ThePissartist and
@Nesh are climbing the walls, that gotta say something, there is more to it, I am sure now. :smile2:
Then there is the movies. Plus you could also create a remake of the originals, at 60 fps, as suggested by other forumer --if Konami are so kind to give the original code away.
Even if it cost 1 billion maybe it could pay off in the long run.
Since we're talking about rumors, any truth to
this? I haven't read the whole thread yet, but it would seems like a blow to the whole "bro_bruh" first-person shooter thing XBOX brand established.
The rumour seems to be quite true. So no more 10 minutes of CoD at the Xbox E3 conference, thanks god, that time could be used to show some other games, thankfully.
CoD drove Xbox sales, so it might be a bummer for many, and youutbers "sold" a lot of Xbox copies of the games as well, but that's life.
). Or, MS paid $1 billion for a nearly complete, amazeballs SH game. Or some combination. Or someone was talking in their sleep and dreaming.
