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

sales2099 on 06 February 2014

id like to know the platform breakdown of that 42 million.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 06 February 2014

As they completely ignore wii Sports



                  

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Augen on 06 February 2014

Crazy part is given its appeal could continue selling for years to come. I see no point in a sequel as graphics were never part of the market (can mod it if you want anyways).



Fusioncode on 06 February 2014

Tetris has got it beat with over 100m sales.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

MegaManX on 06 February 2014

To all the people who say because the price is less for Minecraft, do you disqualify handhelds as "consoles" back when people were saying 3DS was the best selling "console" because it was priced less than PS3 and 360? Also than do we consider PS3 the better seller because it was sold for 500-600 and has 82 million sales vs. the Wii which sold 100 million but at half the price?



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chocoloco on 06 February 2014
dsage01 said:
Apparently GAF proved those stats wrong and the article itself says it sources are questionable.

GAF is thousands of people that never agree on anything. How can they prove anything right or wrong?

OT: The creator is a huge multi-millionaire just byy creating one game. Yet, he keeps improving it and cheaply if you count the cost of downloadable content on 360.  No matter what this guy is set for life by creating one game. He never has to work again. Huge individual success story.



chapset on 06 February 2014

Beast and the ps4 will be the definitive version, 1080p@60fps



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

chapset on 06 February 2014
Pemalite said:
S.Peelman said:
They should factor in the fact that over three quarters of that number was 'sold' on mobile. If you're going to include the mobile sales, you should also include all other mobile games. Moreover, the first paragraph contains untruths, plus the minesweeper argument is nonsensical.


What? You're saying that the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions have only sold roughly 10 and a half million copies? The sales counter on mojangs website says otherwise just for the PC version. (Which has sold the most.)

curl-6 said:
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.


I do agree, that the creativity of the average player is pretty horrible, it's extent is usually at most a square wooden house with some farms. (I've built structures that are thousands of blocks wide with lots of curviture and contrast.)

However, Minecraft is more than that.
Players have servers set up for things like Arena battles or even Role Playing servers and such, that's also user created content and it can be good fun with the right group of players and half the fun is building the arena's and role playing environments.

Heck, I've seen people build Microprocessors or the entire Lord of the Rings world.

The creativity of the game is giving the player total freedom to do as they will, how many games do that these days? Most games usually throw you into an on-rails environment full of pretty explosions and "press A to win" it hardly engages the creative mind.

Minecraft on the PC however also supports modding, hence giving players advanced game mechanics like the Lua programming language in computer craft (You could make a game inside Minecraft!) and mods like Industrial Craft and Gregtech which gives you things like Nuclear and Fusion Reactors to play with or Red Power which allows you to make structures that can move around the game world.

In the end, should Minecraft be classed as crap because the developers didn't have such things in the origional game? I don't think so personally, but we may differ on that point.

I think it's good for the industry for the "little guy" to have such success, it proves to the big AAA publishers that you don't need a $300 million dollar budget and  pretty explosions that takes away control from the player to have fun.

Didn't it do 10mill on the 360 alone?



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

Podings on 06 February 2014

I can understand Wii Sports and the original Super Mario Bros..

New Super Mario Bros. Wii was primarily sold standalone, however. But it doesn't count because there was a console bundle at one point?

Wii Sports Resort doesn't count because most copies came bundled with a MotionPlus?

Wii Fit doesn't count for the same reason (mostly bundled with Balance Board) or it isn't considered a game at all?



dane007 on 06 February 2014
curl-6 said:
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.

In order for user to create something in minecraft ,, the game would have to be capable to do and should be providing th etools for user to create it right?  I mean a user won't be able ot create a multiplayer halo match on minecraft , or a whole city from games of thone if teh game wasn't capable of doing so . Thatas wwhat i meant. COD is teh same game since MW2.