We know that the Xbox 360 release reached 12 million sales in April, nearly two years after launching on that platform. For the sake of simplicity, let's estimate console sales at the time at 16 million units across both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.ĭetermining the split across those two consoles is difficult. If the PC/Mac release was sitting at (or slightly below) 15,933,049 on June 25, then we could estimate that the combined console sales would be equal to or greater than that number. Not perfect, but pretty close.Īt the time, the point of Geuder's tweet was to announce that sales of the console editions had surpassed sales of the PC/Mac release. Today, that number is 16,705,719 however, thanks to the magic of the Internet Archive, we know that that number was 15,933,049 on July 3, just over a week after Geuder's tweet. Mojang maintains a stats page on its website that lists overall sales of the game. Let's start with the most precise data we have: copies sold on PC. And across all platforms we've sold almost 54 million copies.įiguring out which sales occurred on which platform is a messy task, so steel yourself for a certain amount of imprecision as we continue. Minecraft console editions together just passed Minecraft for PC/ Mac. And while there have been 100 million downloads 'on PC alone,' the most recent data we have puts total number of copies sold across all platforms at roughly 54 million copies, as of late June. For an unfinished PC game with no major brand, no publisher or marketing support, being sold outside of the major PC gaming storefronts like Steam, this was. The game exceeded 1 million purchases on January 12, 2011, just a few weeks after entering its beta phase. Keeping up with the breakneck pace of Minecraft's sales is no easy feat. But Minecraft is available on no fewer than nine platforms, encompassing nearly every major software ecosystem from Google to Apple, from Sony to Microsoft. The second number being thrown around is 100 million, which is the number of downloads 'on PC alone' the game has enjoyed since its 2009 launch, according to Microsoft's announcement. But that game just so happens to be Minecraft, something of a cultural phenomenon. First is the princely sum of $2.5 billion, which might seem like an awful lot of money for a studio with really just one game to its name. With Microsoft's announcement this morning that it's acquired Swedish developer Mojang, there's been no shortage of numbers thrown around.

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