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Nsanity on 10 January 2013

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Runt of the litter no longer - the Xbox Live Arcade version of Minecraft sold more copies than the PC edition in 2012.

5,002,370 copies to the PC's 4,177,843, Mojang revealed. Add to that the 5,899,727 yearly Minecraft: Pocket Edition sales and you have a grand annual total of 15,079,940. Not a bad year all in all.

Christmas sales were particularly rampant. On Christmas Day alone, 70,808 people bought Minecraft on PC; 100,416 people bought Minecraft on XBLA; and 283,939 bought Minecraft: Pocket Edition.

That's a Christmas Day total of 455,163 sales.

During the Christmas week of 24th December to 30th December, 241,845 people bought the game on PC; 325,591 bought it on XBLA; and 706,419 bought the Pocket Edition.

Lifetime Minecraft sales are a little harder to compute. Sales are updated in real-time for the PC version on the game's website. The count right now is 8,831,612. With those extra sales added our grand total moves up to 18,909,182.

The XBLA version only launched this year so the 2012 total is all we need. But the Pocket Edition launched in 2011, and exact sales for back then are hard to come by. It took the Android version until March 2012 to break 1 million sales.

There's a new version of Minecraft planned for this year: Minecraft: Pi Edition. This is an adapted Pocket Edition for Raspberry Pis, and it will completely free to download.

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sales2099 on 10 January 2013

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riderz13371 on 10 January 2013

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Lol! And people say consoles are on their way slowly out.

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Zappykins on 17 January 2013

Wow, I thought in some ways, like multiplayer, people actually like the Xbox version better than the PC.

Still, impressive sales. I still think they should make a limited edition Minecraft Console. If they did, what would you want on it?

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned.

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Wow, I thought in some ways, like multiplayer, people actually like the Xbox version better than the PC.

Still, impressive sales. I still think they should make a limited edition Minecraft Console. If they did, what would you want on it?

I was under the impression people liked PC version's multiplayer more. Most servers I've seen use plenty of mods.

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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 17 January 2013

Awesome. Did not expect this at all.

Yay!!!

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foodfather on 17 January 2013

Really hate that game and how big it has become. Much better live games available that come nowhere close to selling a few hundred thousand.

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hatmoza on 17 January 2013

Not surprised. My nephews play this game religiously. Their cousin came over on Christmas break and said he wanted to save up money for an Xbox just to play Mine Craft.

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