Actually minecraft has not been confirmed. all that's been said is they will if the platform and demand is there. Nothing stating they are backing the console at all.
Lets see here, 20 million usd. Lets say mojang gets around $12 from each sold copy of minecraft after taxes, putting taxes at a very generous 50%, they'll require around ~1666666 sold copies for that. At a rate of 9000 copies sold per day, they'll have the budget required after half a year of minecraft sales. Needless to…