In Peques and Más we published recently what are the best-selling video games in all history and we talked about Minecraft It has sold a lot driven by pedagogical use and the ease of sharing content on YouTube, among other reasons. The fact is that the news has jumped, because Microsoft could buy Minecraft for two billion dollars.
It is a billionaire purchase which shows that startup opportunities, especially those related to video game, are current and motivate all entrepreneurs with good ideas and especially with good products. And is that Minecraft has revolutionized part of the game market in a very short time facilitating that the limits are set by the player's imagination From the specialized press it is reported that Microsoft could get Mojang, the developer of Minecraft. Mojang is Swedish and the game was launched in 2009 as a personal project by its creator Markus Persson.
Minecraft, a kind of gigantic LEGO that can be built and used as a game scenario, began as a project in which Persson worked at night when he returned home from work at a video game company. His work was recognized with the grand prize of Independent Games Festival in 2011. Minecraft you can play, not only in the computerbut also in the PlayStation and the Xbox. It seems that it is after carrying out the procedures to facilitate the use of the game on the Microsoft platform when the agreement has been taking shape, price and probably final decision.
From what I read in Extra Life, Markus Persson started programming as a child, in high school he enrolled in a programming course obtaining the highest grade.
In my opinion Minecraft is not a video game typical because what you have to do is build your own stage in which you can also live your own adventures and all with an interface not especially attractive. Come on, my Spectrum of the 80s has graphics or pixels that don't clash too much with what is seen in Minecraft. In any case, the game has triumphed among the little ones, and the older ones, getting the big ones to notice it.
I hope that Markus Persson make the most appropriate decision although it seems difficult to resist a two followed by nine zeros in dollars! so we will have to wait to see how Microsoft is encouraged to use a development that will probably improve. Although the most important thing is the more than 50 million downloads that the game has to which it will try to make profitable and, of course, incorporate new players.
