Minecraft Tops 300 Million Units Sold - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 October 2023 / 4,299 Views
Mojang Studios during Minecraft Live over the weekend announced Minecraft has sold over 300 million units worldwide ahead of the game's 15th anniversary in May 2024. This figure is up from 238 million units sold as of April 2021.
"As we approach the 15th anniversary, Minecraft remains one of the best-selling games of all time, with over 300 million copies sold, a milestone no one could have dreamed of when we were all placing our first blocks," said the head of Mojang Studios Helen Chiang via Windows Central.
"Our incredible community has built Minecraft into what it is today and what it will become in the future. We can't wait to share new Minecraft content and experiences in the years ahead."
Minecraft was first released publicly in May 2009 with the full release in November 2011. The game has been released on just about every major platform over the last 15 years including PC, iOS, and Android in 2011, the Xbox 360 in 2012, the PlayStation 3 in 2013, the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PlayStation Vita in 2014, the Wii U in 2015, the Nintendo Switch and New Nintendo 3DS in May 2017.
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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That's an extra 62 million in the last 2 and a half years. The next best-selling game is GTA V, on 'just' 185 million.
And Minecraft is also the 7th best-selling game series of all time, with just the sales of Minecraft alone, not including the spin-offs.
And I never even layed a finger on it. :-P
Damn that's sooner than I expected, but it has been a while since april 2021 I suppose.
Minecraft is the perfect game for the appropriate title "Timeless"
making a Minecraft 2 would be an absolute gold mine. wouldn't even have to change a lot, just make it prettier and people would buy it again and again.
Xbox's best acquisition.
Definitely would have made back that $2.5~ billion in 2014 when the game was at about 55~ million in sales... To think it's added another 250~ million copies sold since then... Plus add TV shows, spin-off games, toys and more...
Microsoft has also managed Mojang correctly and basically let them do whatever they like.
The only criticism I have, is that they never released the 3DS version with 3D support like they promised.
