Fri, May 25, 2012 | 13:30 BST
Minecraft sales hit 9.2 million, PC version at 6 million
Mojang’s business developer Daniel Kaplan has revealed that the company’s smash hit Minecraft has sold 9.2 million copies across its different versions.
Responding to a question from Markus ‘notch’ Persson on if anyone at the company had specific numbers, Kaplan revealed the statistic in a tweet.
That number includes the PC, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS and Android versions of the game. Persson also revealed that the PC version alone had hit 6 million copies sold.
The Xbox 360 version of the game smashed records when it launched and became a profitable endeavour within an hour of its release.
Thanks, Eurogamer.
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Posted in: Android, Casual, Mojang, PC, Puzzler, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, iOS
Tags: Minecraft, Minecraft iOS, Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition, sales
8 comments
#1
Stardog
25/05/12, 1:15 pm
From 2m to 9.2m in one year. 1m to 9.2m in one and a half years.
Not bad.
It shows that some indie games that are older should keep advertising forever. There are always more people who haven’t played your game than have.
#2
Da Man
25/05/12, 1:20 pm
I still don’t want to play it.
#3
Old MacDonald
25/05/12, 2:01 pm
I remember when I was really excited to see the counter on Minecraft’s website cross 100k. It was amazing to see an indie game be that popular.
I wonder where it’ll end up. Crazy stuff.
#4
TheBlackHole
25/05/12, 2:49 pm
@2 ditto.
#5
ManuOtaku
25/05/12, 3:16 pm
#2,#4, not that my opinion should persuate you, but i did thought like you, then i decide to give it a try on XBLA just to see what the fuss was all about, and i realize that it is well deserve, it is a great game, but like i said this is not to persuate you to get it, because i understand it will be not for everybody tastes.
#6
Da Man
25/05/12, 3:28 pm
I don’t play video games where you create levels etc. Aside from the Forge World =)
I hate level editors and mods.
#7
_LarZen_
25/05/12, 3:53 pm
@6 Lacking the creative humnan genome eh?
#8
minxamo
26/05/12, 9:46 pm
The game is a half-assed piece of shit, but at least it’s shown developers that you don’t need to create a grimdark edgy modern first person shooter to be successful.