Minecraft has been on the market for 10 years, which can make many feel old. And just the other day, Microsoft announced a new milestone in the distribution of the popular sandbox: according to the company, 176 million copies have been sold worldwide on all platforms to date.
For comparison: according to official data for October last year, the game was sold in the amount of 154 million copies, and the monthly active user rate at that time was 91 million people. Finally, this April only on PC 30 million copies.
It's worth noting that Minecraft's "world achievements" traditionally do not include China. This is a separate huge market, in which the brainchild of Mojang in versions for PC and mobile devices is promoted by the local company NetEase. The latter recently announced in its financial report that the audience of the game in China at the end of the first quarter (March 31, 2019) exceeded the milestone of 200 million registered users.
By the way, recently the Redmond giant is a shareware game for mobile devices based on augmented reality. In Minecraft Earth, players will have to explore real surroundings, find blocks, chests and monsters. Occasionally, there will even be small, life-sized pieces of Minecraft worlds that you can interact with. Closed beta testing will take place this summer, you can sign up for it at .
Also Mojang in honor of the 10th anniversary of Minecraft browser-based Minecraft Classic, which is the very first version of the game in 2009.
Source: 3dnews.ru