Many people on Christmas Day would have been buying presents for loved ones at the mall. Others were buying whatever version of Minecraft that could find on that day.
Markus “Notch” Persson tweeted “Across all platforms, Minecraft sold 453k copies on dec 25! Wowzers! <3”
This isn’t surprising considering the amount of popularity the franchise has amassed in just a short amount of time. The game’s Xbox 360 version is the best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game in history selling over 4.4 million units as of December 6th, 2012.
It’s only a matter of time that the Xbox 360 version will sell over the 5 million mark. It’s possible it can attain this in the next couple of months…
Source: Twitter
