Minecraft Sales Oh My God

[zarx]

CChaos said:

pezus said:
Pocket Edition is just insane. No actually, ALL versions are insane. This game will easily sell over 30m combined eventually. Simply amazing, and unprecedented for an indie game (that costs more than a dollar lol).

I couldn't agree more. It's an amazing game.

Here's some interesting numbers too, calculated out for the first post numbers. If you just used the raw numbers, multiplied by how much each unit costs per purchase, you get:

PC: $112,592,868.85 ($26.95 a piece)

XBox: $100,047,400 (1600 Microsoft points/$20 a piece)

Mobile: $42,298,089 ($7 a piece)

Total: $253,938,357.85 in the past year.

Obviously that isn't exactly how much they made, but the sheer fact that an indie game could generate this kind of monetary gain is staggering. More power to Mojang and 4J. I hope they can ride this thing for years more, being able to do new updates and what not.

EDIT: Oh, two other things to keep in mind: Current PC sales totals are 8.833m (visible on their page) and the 5.8 million sold in 2012 for PE doesn't even include the three months it was also available in 2011 for total numbers. So, Pez, your assertion that it'll make 30m? Probably a pretty solid guess, I agree.

those numbers are mind boggling, and to think that they get 100% share of the PC sales before tax....

Even with the MS and 4J Studios taking their cuts of the 360 version Mojang still probably earned enough money to fund Psychonauts lol.