There's two obvious monetization strategies that I can think of. The first one they're already doing: that's a commercial server hosting service (Minecraft Rea

There's two obvious monetization strategies that I can think of. The first one they're already doing: that's a commercial server hosting service (Minecraft Realms). The other one is bringing mods to the console versions as paid DLC. Mods are popular on PC (but miserable to install and maintain) but I don't know if there are any modding options for the console versions. At least the Android Pocket Edition doesn't seem to have any modding options. Well, there's a third strategy but I don't think they'll go that way. Pay real money for getting some in-game goods or consumables. I don't think this would work very well, because it seems like people really like grinding for hours in search of the elusive diamond blocks. I certainly do :)