Minecraft Videos Have Topped 1 Trillion Views on YouTube - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 January 2022 / 1,757 Views
YouTube in a new article has announced Minecraft videos on the website have surpassed one trillion views to date.
"This year, Minecraft YouTube passed a nearly unimaginable milestone: Videos related to the game have been viewed more than one trillion times," reads the article.
"If each of those one trillion views were just one second long, that would add up to over 30,000 years. If each view were a Minecraft block 12 inches square, you could build a stack that reached from the Earth to the sun and back -- with about seven million miles to spare. That’s how big one trillion views is. So how do you get there? We looked at the data – all 12 years’ worth of daily uploads and views from tens of thousands of creators and millions of viewers – and now that we’ve mined our way through, we can show you."
Minecraft was first made public in May 2009 with the full release in November 2011. Developer Mojang and the game itself was acquired by Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion. It is the best-selling video game in history with over 200 million units sold.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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We all (myself included) thought Microsoft was crazy when they paid $2.5 billion dollars for the game and its developers. Turns out it was one of the most genius acquisitions in recent gaming history.
Yeah, $2.5 billion seemed like it was overpaying. And maybe it would have been overpaying for anyone else, maybe Microsoft had a vision of how to monetize Minecraft that exceeded what others would be able to do with it. Hard to say.
What ever happened to that other game that Mojang was working on when Microsoft purchased them. Was it just cancelled when Notch left?
Wow!
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