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Forums - Gaming - Minecraft Becomes The Most-Selling Video Game of All Time at 42 Million Units

God I hate this game so much.



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curl-6 said:
A truly shitty game.
COD is more deserving of its sales than Minecraft.


Minecraft has levelof creativity that allCOD games combined dreamof. the levelof creativity is endless as long as youhave imagination and patience



The modern day LEGO.

Wouldnt be surprised to see it break 50 Million in the next 12 Months.



                            

dane007 said:
curl-6 said:
A truly shitty game.
COD is more deserving of its sales than Minecraft.


Minecraft has levelof creativity that allCOD games combined dreamof. the levelof creativity is endless as long as youhave imagination and patience

User created content isn't creativity of the game itself, just potentially of players, and the average player has the creativity of a brick. And patience isn't fun.



guiduc said:
It was launched across 4 platforms... It isn't worth mentioning. The real champion is still Mario Kart Wii.


MK Wii was EXTREMELY bundled in every single territory though. Some user on VGC chart even showed a chart proving it. 



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Apparently GAF proved those stats wrong and the article itself says it sources are questionable.



Only because they keep selling the game as "Minecraft" and making permanent updates to it, while other publishers would have released Mincraft 2 - 7 by now



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Ignoring games that were bundled with a console is pointless. People still bought those systems BECAUSE of the game bundled with it, they bought those bundles BECAUSE of the game. The games were bundled in the first place because, in most cases, they were already popular titles, or quickly became such, making them system sellers, which is why they were bundled in the first place. The fact that they were bundled was just smart business, and it doesn't negate their popularity or selling power one bit.

Looking at it any other way is kind of naive.



DevilRising said:
Ignoring games that were bundled with a console is pointless. People still bought those systems BECAUSE of the game bundled with it, they bought those bundles BECAUSE of the game. The games were bundled in the first place because, in most cases, they were already popular titles, or quickly became such, making them system sellers, which is why they were bundled in the first place. The fact that they were bundled was just smart business, and it doesn't negate their popularity or selling power one bit.

Looking at it any other way is kind of naive.

Consolemakers don't only bundle games because they're system sellers, they also bundle them to give them more exposure in hopes of increasing their popularity see for example Sony bundling Infamous 2 or MS bundling Forza.

In Mario Karts case the bundle exists because the game is a system seller though, still that doesn't mean over 30mil people bought this bundle because they necessarily wanted Mario Kart.



DevilRising said:
Ignoring games that were bundled with a console is pointless. People still bought those systems BECAUSE of the game bundled with it, they bought those bundles BECAUSE of the game. The games were bundled in the first place because, in most cases, they were already popular titles, or quickly became such, making them system sellers, which is why they were bundled in the first place. The fact that they were bundled was just smart business, and it doesn't negate their popularity or selling power one bit.

Looking at it any other way is kind of naive.

I agree with this. Well said!



 

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