{"id":2252,"date":"2015-07-01T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2015-07-01T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:25:32","slug":"minecraft-on-pc-breaks-20-million-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft on PC breaks 20 million sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there no stopping <em>Minecraft<\/em>? In total, Mojang has sold 70 million units of its pop-culture phenomenon, easily making it the best selling game of the last five years, and roughly thirty percent\u00a0of that has been on the native PC platform. Mojang has confirmed that\u00a0<em>Minecraft<\/em> has hit 20 million PC sales.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.net\/stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The game\u2019s official website<\/a> claims that\u00a020,009,634 people have bought the game as of writing with\u00a010,562 picking it up in the past 24 hours alone. Makes you wonder who the lucky number 20 millionth was and if they\u2019ll score a prize. Something tells me Mojang\u00a0has 20 million of \u201csomething\u201d it\u00a0could stand to part with, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n<p>Business Developer at Mojang\u00a0Daniel Kaplan thanked fans in an announcement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kappische\/status\/615944752329027584<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the sales figures are spread across the mobile version, which has topped 30 million, and the consoles. The Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions have sold a combined\u00a020 million in the past, meaning that the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita builds must also round out a fair share of that figure as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kappische\/status\/615944752329027584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TWITTER<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.net\/stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOJANG<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">VIA<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2015\/6\/30\/8872503\/minecraft-sales-pc-mac-20-million-copies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLYGON<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there no stopping Minecraft? In total, Mojang has sold 70 million units of its pop-culture phenomenon, easily making it the best selling game of the last five years, and roughly thirty percent\u00a0of that has been on the native PC platform. Mojang has confirmed that\u00a0Minecraft has hit 20 million PC sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}