Update: Minecraft: Minecraft XBLA builds up 4m sales, averages 27,000 a day

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Nsanity on 10 May 2012

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Last night we reported that a huge number of people had rated Minecraft on 360, more than anything else around recently anyway.

Today it looks like most of those ratings have transformed into sales, with original Minecraft developer Notch (Markus Persson) saying that the game was immediately profitable.

“Well then,” he said. “Saw the official sales numbers for the first 24 hours of Minecraft Xbox 360, and it’s very, very good. Profitable in an hour.”

He also says that didn’t know that split-screen was disabled if players were using an SD television set.

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2012/05/10/minecraft-on-360-was-profitable-within-an-hour/

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theprof00 on 10 May 2012

In other news, Notch fixes split-screen SD bug by making the game split screen only.

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Ji99saw on 10 May 2012

I love the fact that things like XBL can be profitable and they don't have to go full retail

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DaHuuuuuudge on 10 May 2012

Great news for a great game! I have it for the PC so I won't be buying it but I'm glad more people can try this awesome game out!

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man-bear-pig on 10 May 2012

I'm downloading this as I type. Eek!

Ahem... Great news for mojang and XBLA, both this and Trials: Evolution are the greatest games this year so far for me.

Well done microsoft!

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Porcupine_I on 10 May 2012

strange, i thought it was profitable before it even was on 360

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