Minecraft has bought over 300 million copies

Minecraft already has the excellence of being the bestselling online game of all time. Right now, it provides extra all the way down to that exact feather in its cap with the announcement that it has bought a staggering 300 million copies.

“As we strategy the fifteenth anniversary, Minecraft stays one of many best-selling video games of all time, with over 300 million copies bought, a milestone nobody might have dreamed of once we had been all inserting our first blocks,” Helen Chiang, head of Mojang Studios, stated in a press release.

The brand new milestone was introduced throughout Minecraft Dwell 2023, a Minecraft livestream occasion that shares information and group updates and includes a neat voting occasion during which gamers can vote on which new creature needs to be added to the sport. This yr, your selections are between a crab, an armadillo, and a penguin. Personally, I voted for the penguin as a result of it’s cute.

300 million copies of Minecraft is nothing to sneeze at, eclipsing gross sales of nearly each different piece of leisure media since we began protecting observe. To place it in perspective, Thriller, the bestselling album of all time, has bought round 70 million copies. The bestselling console, the PS2, bought round 155 million items. Even the second bestselling online game of all time, Grand Theft Auto V, doesn’t even come near Minecraft’s numbers, topping out at 185 million reported gross sales. Minecraft is in a category of its personal and can probably stay there for a really very long time — or at the very least till Half-Life 3 comes out.