Update: Minecraft for XBLA reaches 3.6 million units sold

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Nsanity on 20 July 2012

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Markus Persson has announced the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has generated $60 million in sales since May. Developed by 4J Studios, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition quickly broke reconrd on XBLA by moving 400,000 copies its first day on sale. In less than a week, it hit one million in sales. The latest update to the game was released last week.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/20/minecraft-360-sells-3-million-copies-60-million-in-sales/

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Carl on 20 July 2012

Fantastic sales, easy money.

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thetonestarr on 20 July 2012

It's currently at ~6.7m for PC right now.

I'm somewhat surprised it's selling so fast on Xbox. It's almost up to half that of PC even though PC is much further developed and has been available for much longer, most of that time at significantly cheaper prices!

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Barozi on 20 July 2012

Awesome. Will update my thread in a minute.

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Carl on 20 July 2012

thetonestarr said:

It's currently at ~6.7m for PC right now.

I'm somewhat surprised it's selling so fast on Xbox. It's almost up to half that of PC even though PC is much further developed and has been available for much longer, most of that time at significantly cheaper prices!

Word of Mouth. Its just so fun to play with friends. Perfect match for Xbox Live, really.