Everyone likes big numbers, right? I know I do. Here’s a stonker: 30,000,000! You good people have bought Minecraft: Pocket Edition over 30 million times. Thanks!

Let’s put that into perspective: if each Pocket Edition sale was an average sized dog, and you walked said dog every day with a retractable leash in moderate temperatures across uneven terrain, it would consume approximately 290,566,788^3 kj of energy. I know. It’s a big number.

To celebrate the sales milestone, we’re planning a question and answer session with the devs. It will be broadcast LIVE on the internet. And you get to supply the questions.

Hit this reddit thread and submit your query. We’ll pick the top-voted/least offensive ones and put them to the devs LIVE on air later this week. It’s going to be great. Get involved!

Owen – @bopogamel and the Pocket Edition team

https://mojang.com/2015/01/youve-bought-pocket-edition-many-many-times/

Sheesh, I'd like total lifetime numbers.

I don't like big numbers...

Probably over 70m by now. PC+360 should easily add another 30m while PS3, PS4, XB1, PSV should add up to around 10m or more.

Mobile plus PC gives a total of 48.1 million then.

How old is the 18.1 figure for PC?


We have 12m for April last year on Xbox 360. That has likely ballooned.

Wait! On the play store it says that Minecraft has sold 5Million units and unless iOS and windows phone together bought 25 million I highly doubt it sold 30 million.

Isn't it 5m+?

This comes from the devs, you know. They know how much it has sold.

It's realtime. "So far 18,115,740 people bought the PC/Mac version of the game. Phew." https://minecraft.net/

+ Consoles = easily 60 million

Awesome.

So, Mobile = 30m, PC 18.1m, Xbox 360 12m (+ 9 months sales), PS3 3m+ (+ 9 months sales) PS4, XB1 and Vita (Or is Vita the pocket version?)

I'd say closer to 80m.