As the other commentors mentioned, there's nothing improbable about it -- but there shouldn't even be anything too surprising about it. It's not even as if Min

As the other commentors mentioned, there's nothing improbable about it -- but there shouldn't even be anything too surprising about it. It's not even as if Minecraft is the first time this happened or the most extreme case of it happening. It's probably the most widely-publicized example though, at least among the tech media. Of course, this doesn't at all reduce the value of Minecraft's success -- it's just that Minecraft is not some singular magical exception in a world of failures. This has happened before, and it'll happen again, and it'll happen bigger.