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Minecraft Flies by 20M Units Sold Across All Platforms

by William D'Angelo, posted on 22 January 2013 / 2,287 Views

The Minecraft success story continues as the game crosses the 20 million mark. The announcement was Tweeted by Mojang developer Jens Bergensten who also said the PC version of the game passed nine million units sold on October 21.

Bergensten later Tweeted that Minecraft: Pocket Edition is the bestselling version of the game with 7.3 million units sold. That version was around five million units sold in November.

Earlier this month Mojang announced Minecraft sold 15 million units across all platforms in 2012. The PC / Mac version of the game sold 4.18 million units in 2012, the Xbox 360 version 5.00 million units and the mobile version 5.90 million units.


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4 Comments

yo_john117
yo_john117 (on 22 January 2013)

Minecraft is one of those games that you can easily hate...until you actually play it!

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cusman
cusman (on 24 January 2013)

But when will it be available on PS3, Wii U, PSV, 3DS, etc?

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goddog
goddog (on 23 January 2013)

it keeps going and going and going.... my hope it to se xbl tie into the pc/mac in the future

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thetonestarr
thetonestarr (on 22 January 2013)

PC edition has sold over 9m, but Pocket Edition is the best-selling edition at 7.3m. Seems legit.

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thetonestarr
thetonestarr (on 22 January 2013)

Looking at what Jeb actually tweeted, didn't say PE is the best-selling edition; he said it's fastest-selling.

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Iveyboi
Iveyboi (on 23 January 2013)

They mean 2012

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