Cumulative sales number of Minecraft tops 176 million, becoming 'the best-selling game in the world'

by BagoGames

' Tetris ', which was developed in 1984 by the former Soviet Union, can be said to be a monument to puzzle games that have been popular around the world. It is clear that the globally popular game “ Minecraft ” is likely to defeat the record of the cumulative sales number that such Tetris has built over 30 years.

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On May 17, 2019, Saxs Persson, Creative Director of Minecraft, reports that Minecraft celebrates its 10th anniversary on the Xbox Official News Site, Xbox Wire . We announced the AR game ' Minecraft Earth ' for smartphones where you can play Minecraft in the real world.

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Persson mentioned casually in this article that 'Maincraft has sold a total of 176 million copies worldwide so far,' but this record was established by that 'Tetris' in 2014. There is a high possibility of exceeding the record of 170 million, and it is considered that Minecraft will become the 'the best-selling game in the world'.

It can not be clearly determined that Tetris is sold in various media and sales methods due to its popularity, and the number 'the total number of Tetris sold is 170 million' is as of 2014. It is because. The record of 170 million is also the count of only 'packaged version', and the separately tabulated mobile version has achieved 422 million downloads.

Nevertheless, Minecraft has become one of the world's most beloved games, as the cumulative sales number announced in September 2018, reached 156 million in just 7 months It seems that there is no doubt that it is one. Other than Minecraft and Tetris at the time of writing, the only game that has sold more than 100 million units is Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) , which will be shipped on March 31, 2019. The number has surpassed 110 million, as revealed by the announcement of the developer Take-Two Interactive.