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Minecraft horses teased as PC sales pass 10 million

Minecraft, you may have heard, is pretty popular. In January 2011, while the game was still in beta, it passed 1 million sales. Two and a bit years later, the PC edition has now hit the 10 million sales mark. Gosh, that's a big round number. The Xbox 360 edition recently passed 6 million too, while the mobile version has sold at least 7 million.
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Minecraft, you may have heard, is pretty popular. In January 2011, while the game was still in beta, it passed 1 million sales. Two and a bit years later, the PC edition has now hit the 10 million sales mark. Gosh, that's a big round number. The Xbox 360 edition recently passed 6 million too, while the mobile version has sold at least 7 million.

Mojang's Jens Bergensten pointed out the latest sales milestone on Twitter. He also dropped "a subtle hint on the main 1.6 feature" by linking to a picture of a horse. Subtle.

The Xbox 360 version passed that 6 million mark only last week. And the Pocket Edition, well, we don't have new numbers but it's surely doing stonkingly. As of January 22, it had sold 7.3 million copies. That figure has probably jumped at least a million or two in the last few months.

Speaking of updates, the XBLA version will receive Update 9 this week.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    April 5, 2013 7:15 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Minecraft horses teased as PC sales pass 10 million.

    Minecraft, you may have heard, is pretty popular. In January 2011, while the game was still in beta, it passed 1 million sales. Two and a bit years later, the PC edition has now hit the 10 million sales mark. Gosh, that's a big round number. The Xbox 360 edition recently passed 6 million too, while the mobile version has sold at least 7 million.

    • uebersoldat legacy 10 years
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      April 5, 2013 7:22 AM

      the mobile version is little more than a novelty. Especially if you've put a lot of time into the full-blown PC version. I'm honestly surprised it's sold more than the 360 version.

      • Ziz legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 5, 2013 7:35 AM

        Yeah, give us the full game! Hate running into the end of the world etc.

        • uebersoldat legacy 10 years
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          April 5, 2013 7:52 AM

          I don't mind running into the end of the world (mobile devices being pretty limited with resources), having a nice little box to play around in would be ok if everything else was in it but even so, without keyboard and mouse it just still seems like a novelty. It's painful trying to move around and create structures on a phone.

          • TroZ legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury ultra mega
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            April 5, 2013 8:06 AM

            If the mobile version could connect to PC servers and let you play on the server, even with a limited field of view, that would be cool. That shouldn't use much memory on the phone, as only the immediate area is in the phone memory, but would give the player a large world to explore.

    • Ziz legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      April 5, 2013 7:35 AM

      Cool! The rideable pigs are cool, but ya can't control em.

    • excessus legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      April 7, 2013 5:30 PM

      But horses are available in the form of mods. Some of them are awesome.

    • Stefan Zimny legacy 10 years
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      June 6, 2013 1:37 AM

      SWEET! I just got a free Minecraft card code at http://minecraftcode.me/

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