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Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sells a million copies

It appears that Minecraft's popularity extends beyond the PC. The Xbox 360 Edition of Mojang Specification's iconic crafting game has sold a million copies in less than one week on the market.
Andrew Yoon
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"This 'Minecraft' thing is just a fad, right?" - Fictional person made up for the purposes of this article.

Sorry, fictional person. It appears that Minecraft's popularity extends beyond the PC. The Xbox 360 Edition of Mojang Specification's iconic crafting game has sold a million copies in less than one week on the market. According to Microsoft, that means the game has broken "all previous Xbox Live Arcade digital sales records." Sorry, Trials Evolution.

With the game profitable after one hour of sales, it boggles the mind to think how rich the developers of Minecraft are with such record-breaking sales.

Major Nelson reports that since its launch, there have been more than 4 million multiplayer sessions played, with 2.4 total multiplayer gaming hours. Combined with everyone crafting online, gamers have clocked in 5.2 million hours, suggesting many Xbox 360 owners spent more time mining low-res blocks than they did with their moms.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    May 14, 2012 1:15 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition sells a million copies.

    It appears that Minecraft's popularity extends beyond the PC. The Xbox 360 Edition of Mojang Specification's iconic crafting game has sold a million copies in less than one week on the market.

    • uebersoldat legacy 10 years
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      May 14, 2012 1:30 PM

      Money. Hats. Notch really did hit on something huge with virtual Lego sandboxes. Wow.

      • uebersoldat legacy 10 years
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        May 14, 2012 1:31 PM

        and the game still needs sooo much more work to be everything it could be.

        • snot3353 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          May 14, 2012 1:32 PM

          Thanks JR.

        • Zek legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          May 14, 2012 1:45 PM

          Minecraft is what it is, you're going to need to wait for a full development team to take on the genre if you want that.

      • Fred Garvin legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        May 14, 2012 1:32 PM

        I hear he has whole suits made of money.

    • Godhatesfatpeople legacy 10 years
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      May 14, 2012 1:32 PM

      Excellent

    • Entity legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      May 14, 2012 1:35 PM

      I knew it was popular, but I was not expecting that on the Xbox.

    • zehh legacy 10 years
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      May 14, 2012 2:21 PM

      I can hear PR/marketing execs screaming shouts of envy in unison, and for that I'm happy.

      • k1ld0r legacy 10 years
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        May 14, 2012 2:41 PM

        So, 20 million bucks just from Xbox alone...

        Absolutely nuts.

        Why are we not making this kind of cash again?

    • Rauol Duke legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      May 14, 2012 3:05 PM

      I never played a second of it until yesterday. I played the tutorial and before I knew it the tutorial turned into a "game" and I had built a multistory castle and was exploring the caves under my warbase. I was eating porkchops and wearing leather pants and killing zombies that I dug into.

    • OverloadUT legacy 10 years
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      May 14, 2012 4:35 PM

      Any idea how that stacks up against other best-selling XBLA games? Absolute numbers don't really mean anything without something to compare them to!

    • Dagger Man legacy 10 years
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      May 15, 2012 10:36 AM

      what a shame. people has no idea what great games are nowadays. they only know cod, minecrap and shit like this

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