Between iOS and Android versions, Mojang is selling around 5,000 copies per day, which is a pretty amazing feat considering the game costs $6.99 and has no crafting or survival elements. Well, not yet, anyway.
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Minecraft Pocket Edition building worlds in 700K pockets
by Jordan Mallory 
on Jan 19th 2012 1:30PM
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Between iOS and Android versions, Mojang is selling around 5,000 copies per day, which is a pretty amazing feat considering the game costs $6.99 and has no crafting or survival elements. Well, not yet, anyway.
Reader Comments (24)
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:35PM (Unverified) said
How many of us got this for $0.10?
/raise hand
/raise hand
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:36PM Th3commoncold said
@(Unverified) When was this? I would have got it.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:39PM (Unverified) said
@Th3commoncold
During Android Market's 10 Billion Downloaded Apps bonanza.
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During Android Market's 10 Billion Downloaded Apps bonanza.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:50PM Jays2Kings said
@(Unverified) I'm in that category as well. (Th3commoncold, this was for Android a month ago,)
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Posted: Jan 19th 2012 2:42PM (Unverified) said
@Jays2Kings
I got it and I don't even really like Minecraft lol. 10 cents was just too good to pass up
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I got it and I don't even really like Minecraft lol. 10 cents was just too good to pass up
Posted: Jan 20th 2012 8:36AM (Unverified) said
@lolkeits
You sound like a jelly iPhone user. No, it is far from the most expensive game I've paid for on Android, and it's even farther from the most expensive app.
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You sound like a jelly iPhone user. No, it is far from the most expensive game I've paid for on Android, and it's even farther from the most expensive app.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:35PM IrishSJ said
Its decent at best on my Xperia Play. Cant even fathom it on a pure touch screen device. I could it being pretty good on a Vita if it utilized all of the Vitas controls
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:38PM ninjustin said
I wonder how many of those sales where when Minecraft was on sale before the holidays for a $0.10. That is when I bought it.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:38PM Shadow Hog said
To be fair, the Android version was $0.10 briefly.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:42PM ColorblindMonk said
I bought it for the 6ish bucks, knowing it'll improve down the road (you know, 'cause it says alpha in the top right), and they'll need my money to make it happen.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 1:47PM Dick Socrates said
700,000 sales, 700,000 disappointed people thinking 'why is minecraft so popular? Because this is boring as hell.'
Good luck to Notch for pulling off the con of the century.
Good luck to Notch for pulling off the con of the century.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 4:38PM ColorblindMonk said
@Dick Socrates
Mojang obviously wants to take PE in a slightly different direction than its desktop counterpart. They put out the alpha before Minecraft itself was finished, but it wasn't their top priority. I don't know why people expected the same experience when it's in alpha.
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Mojang obviously wants to take PE in a slightly different direction than its desktop counterpart. They put out the alpha before Minecraft itself was finished, but it wasn't their top priority. I don't know why people expected the same experience when it's in alpha.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 2:09PM PR0F3TA said
fuuuuuuuu-
for a second i thought Minecraft Pocket was updated
thanks ¬ ¬
for a second i thought Minecraft Pocket was updated
thanks ¬ ¬
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 3:06PM kensilkgmailcom said
I got it only because it was ten cents during googles big sale. I would say a huge portion of the numbers came from that time frame.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 4:32PM mguniverse said
Which contains neither mining nor crafting. Hooray.
Posted: Jan 19th 2012 8:28PM SomeRandomJrk said
Its slightly encouraging that theyre still making an effort to add features to the mobile version when it sold well enough for them to say "who cares? we made money b1tch!". MONEY!!!
Posted: Jan 20th 2012 3:28PM Red O Magnus said
sooooo, when can we expect this for the xbox?
