Minecraft XBLA closes out the year by reaching 5 million sales milestone

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Minecraft dug deep on New Year's Eve to reach 5 million sales on Xbox Live Arcade before the close of 2012. The news is maybe not surprising given the franchise's prolificacy across the board over the last 12 months, including 453,000 sales on Christmas Day alone, but the achievement still represents a momentous way for developers 4J Studios and Mojang to see in the new year.

Not that there's time for 4J Studios to rest on any laurels, as the team is off its festive break and back at work remedying some of the problems encountered with Title Update 7. The developer says a bug-fixing patch is being released later this month.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/03/minecraft-xbox-360-closes-out-the-year-by-reaching-5-million-sal/#comments

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MobilModdsPosted:

i p do play the game myself but the need to put these patches out alil faster cuz we need to catch up to the pc

PoonPosted:

VisionaryMGMT 453,000 sales on Christmas Day alone. Mother of god, that should give them motivation to push out more patches!


True! I honestly don't play this game, however, if they updated it alot i would consider

VisionaryMGMTPosted:

453,000 sales on Christmas Day alone. Mother of god, that should give them motivation to push out more patches!

OrigamoPosted:

It is a great milestone for 4J studios to achieve.

TTG_ShnuffPosted:

They made a lot of sales for it being out that long.... Lol

PlotPosted:

L33t-Ninja-Much pretty crazy how they could sell that many and still not update it quicker


well the amount of sales does not effect how fast the updates come out

2014Posted:

L33t-Ninja-Much pretty crazy how they could sell that many and still not update it quicker


Really? It takes a good 3 weeks to test and fix bugs not including the 1-2 months it take to get the update prepared, ported and all that good stuff.

TagsPosted:

Its come along way.

WorriedCowPosted:

I remember when they didn't even have it for the Xbox360 look now!

L33t-Ninja-MuchPosted:

pretty crazy how they could sell that many and still not update it quicker