Minecraft XBLA Rakes in Millions

Since its release on on May 9th, 2012,   reported that  has sold more than 1 million copies for $20 a piece, making its revenue over $20 million so far.

So far miners have spent more than 5.2 million hours mining, 2.4 million hours mining on and have played more than 4 million sessions.

Markus “” Persson, original developer of Minecraft responded to Microsoft’s news with the following tweet:

“Uhhhh, Microsoft just sent out a press release saying Minecraft: Edition has sold a million copies in five days. .”

Wow is right.

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14 comments

  1. Lizzie Galatioto May 15, 2012 at 12:04 pm -

    I went on the minecraft website to see if there was a free trail i could play because i cant afford to pay for it. it said i could buy minecraft or get the free one “minecraft classic” which is outdated. but whats the difference between them?

  2. Alejandra Fleishman May 15, 2012 at 12:20 pm -

    A while ago i tried to mod my minecraft and did not backup the files. Which meant i screwed minecraft up completely and could not play minecraft.
    So i decided that i would have a break from minecraft roughly 4 weeks and decided to install it again which meant updating my older backups of minecraft but when i updated i found that their was a newer version of mine craft i did not know about cause my world not to be compatible with the latest update.

  3. Roslyn Pasley May 15, 2012 at 12:20 pm -

    Hey i want to film a minecraft video on fullscreen, however when i press F11 it closes minecraft. How can i stop this from happening, is there another way to make minecraft fullscreen?

  4. Molly Griego May 15, 2012 at 1:21 pm -

    I will be getting xbox live shortly, and will be downloading content. I know that you have to buy microsoft points for certain downloads. Can someone tell me how many microsoft points I need per download?

  5. Louisa Ellman May 16, 2012 at 9:26 pm -

    Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, how much does it cost? I think it is called Microsoft Office?

  6. Melisa Klenke May 27, 2012 at 9:50 pm -

    I tried modding minecraft yesterday and totally screwed it up now when i sign into play it gets stuck on a screen that says updating minecraft and done loading. I tried downloading another copy (not thinking it would charge me, but I think it did.) Anyway how fix it and can someone link or explain how to properly mod.

  7. okay, i need to make a brochure for my project in history, and usually brochures are horizontal right? well, i dunno how to make the page horizontal and columnal like regular brochures are. pls help! oh, and im using Microsoft Word 2003 here so dont gimme tips for 2007. thanks!

  8. I used to play all my games on my brother’s xbox 360 but now he is moving out so I got myself an xbox 360. I want to transfer select data from his Xbox 360 to mine without erasing his data.

  9. just bought minecraft and it says something about your order will be shipped… why shipped i thought u only get a premium account whats there to be shipped?

  10. I’ve tried to make a minecraft server on multiple occasions, and it always fails to load up.
    Can i have a clear guide on how to set it up properly, and how to make it load up in minecraft properly?

  11. I just bought an xbox 360 recently and i am looking for a few good games to bring up any suggestion.

    I looking more for live games then rpg games

  12. In my computer science book it asks how long is the latency time of a typical hard-disk spinning at 360 revolutions per second? It says in the book that latency times are measured in milliseconds so I think that all I need to do is convert 360 revolutions per second to milliseconds, right? I’m not sure but I think I would just divide 360 by 1000 right?