Minecraft sells almost 4.5 million copies on Xbox 360

[Crimmy]

Big-budget games such as Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops II might brag about how they rule the Xbox 360 in terms of sales, but indie games can also compete – if they’re addictive enough and offer enough value. Take Minecraft, an indie game developed by Markus “Notch” Persson’s company Mojang. According to Mojang, Minecraft, an indie game originally made for PC and ported to the Xbox 360 seven months ago has sold 4,476,904 copies as of the end of November with 40,000 to 60,000 copies sold every week. Minecraft is an anomaly because it doesn’t boast high-definition graphics that ooze of detailed lighting effects and didn’t cost millions of dollars to make, and yet it is the third-most played game on Xbox LIVE.
According to Gamasutra’s analysis and breakdown of November’s Xbox Live Arcade sales, only three other indie games managed to break 1 million copies downloaded last month. See below for the chart.
As you can see, every other game on Xbox Live Arcade other than Castle Crashers, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Happy Wars and Counter Strike: GO isn’t seeing the same type of success Minecraft is.
The lesson here is developers should always focus on the product and the users. If the gameplay mechanics are solid, the experience is fluid and bug-free, the gamers will come.

(Source http://news.yahoo.com/minecraft-sells-almost-4-5-million-copies-xbox-012036198.html)
Two things come to mind.
1. Glad I use Yahoo for my email. Weird articles like this are always kinda neat.
2. I wonder how many of these fuckers think that Minecraft is xbox exclusive.

 

[Ruelel]

but using a controller for first person games is bad
why would anyone buy it?

 

[Twilight]

Lol well the little guy can sometimes win, but all i want is his hat though

 

[sov]

Big-budget games such as Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops II might brag about how they rule the Xbox 360 in terms of sales, but indie games can also compete – if they’re addictive enough and offer enough value. Take Minecraft, an indie game developed by Markus “Notch” Persson’s company Mojang. According to Mojang, Minecraft, an indie game originally made for PC and ported to the Xbox 360 seven months ago has sold 4,476,904 copies as of the end of November with 40,000 to 60,000 copies sold every week. Minecraftis an anomaly because it doesn’t boast high-definition graphics that ooze of detailed lighting effects and didn’t cost millions of dollars to make, and yet it is the third-most played game on Xbox LIVE.
According to Gamasutra’s analysis and breakdown of November’s Xbox Live Arcade sales, only three other indie games managed to break 1 million copies downloaded last month. See below for the chart.
As you can see, every other game on Xbox Live Arcade other than Castle Crashers, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Happy Wars and Counter Strike: GO isn’t seeing the same type of success Minecraftis.
The lesson here is developers should always focus on the product and the users. If the gameplay mechanics are solid, the experience is fluid and bug-free, the gamers will come.

(Source http://news.yahoo.com/minecraft-sells-almost-4-5-million-copies-xbox-012036198.html)
Two things come to mind.
1. Glad I use Yahoo for my email. Weird articles like this are always kinda neat.
2. I wonder how many of these fuckers think that Minecraft is xbox exclusive.

1.If you have Att.net you also get that since Att emails use yahoo page so I think thats pretty neat.


and #2 the game is a PC exclusive in a way because PC has more features and more updates and overall just better.

 

[Crimmy]

and #2 it's more of a PC exclusive in a way because PC has more features and more updates and overall just better.

Last I checked the xbox version is so outdated, they're not even to the Ender update.

 

[Sharkey]

Last I checked the xbox version is so outdated, they're not even to the Ender update.

It's a pain in the ass to push patches for consoles. (takes forever)

 

[[Interrogator]]

Last I checked the xbox version is so outdated, they're not even to the Ender update.

So they're the console peasants that get the PC master race's leftovers

 

[Crimmy]

So they're the console peasants that get the PC master race's leftovers

In a nutshell.

 

[Derpingson]

So they're the console peasants that get the PC master race's leftovers

Your comment reminded me of this :P

 

[sov]

Last I checked the xbox version is so outdated, they're not even to the Ender update.

Yea I know, all I know is that they JUST introduced endermen but you still can't enchant or do anything advanced which kinda makes it lame. Which is why it is way better on PC even though those filty console peasents think theirs is better, they just say that to feel better.

 

[Doctor Who]

I thought I read on Reddit today that Minecraft gets a special consideration, aka free updates to their Xbox games so they don't have to pay $40,000 every time they want to push an update.

 

[Sharkey]

I thought I read on Reddit today that Minecraft gets a special consideration, aka free updates to their Xbox games so they don't have to pay $40,000 every time they want to push an update.

So that's why console developers never want to update their games.

 

[[Interrogator]]

So that's why console developers never want to update their games.

Or at least ones on Xbox

 

[Zaku77]

This is just craziness.