<P> Minecraft surpassed over a million purchases less than a month after entering its beta phase in early 2011 . At the same time, the game had no publisher backing and has never been commercially advertised except through word of mouth, and various unpaid references in popular media such as the Penny Arcade webcomic . By April 2011, Persson estimated that Minecraft had made € 23 million (US $33 million) in revenue, with 800,000 sales of the alpha version of the game, and over 1 million sales of the beta version . In November 2011, prior to the game's full release, Minecraft beta surpassed 16 million registered users and 4 million purchases . By March 2012, Minecraft had become the 6th best - selling PC game of all time . As of 10 October 2014, the game has sold 17 million copies on PC, becoming the best - selling PC game of all time . As of 10 October 2014, the game has sold approximately 60 million copies across all platforms, making it one of the best - selling video games of all time . On 25 February 2014, the game reached 100 million registered users . As of January 2018, over 144 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best - selling video game of all time behind Tetris . </P> <P> The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft became profitable within the first day of the game's release in 2012, when the game broke the Xbox Live sales records with 400,000 players online . Within a week of being on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Minecraft sold upwards of a million copies . GameSpot announced in December 2012 that Minecraft sold over 4.48 million copies since the game debuted on Xbox Live Arcade in May 2012 . In 2012, Minecraft was the most purchased title on Xbox Live Arcade; it was also the fourth most played title on Xbox Live based on average unique users per day . As of 4 April 2014, the Xbox 360 version has sold 12 million copies . In addition, Minecraft: Pocket Edition has reached a figure of 21 million in sales . The PlayStation 3 version sold one million copies in five weeks . The release of the game's PlayStation Vita version boosted Minecraft sales by 79%, outselling both PS3 and PS4 debut releases and becoming the largest Minecraft launch on a PlayStation console . The PS Vita version sold 100,000 digital copies in Japan within the first two months of release, according to an announcement by SCE Japan Asia . By January 2015, 500,000 digital copies of Minecraft were sold in Japan across all PlayStation platforms, with a surge in primary school children purchasing the PS Vita version . Minecraft helped improve Microsoft's total first - party revenue by $63 million for the 2015 second quarter . </P> <P> In July 2010, PC Gamer listed Minecraft as the fourth - best game to play at work . In December of that year, Good Game selected Minecraft as their choice for Best Downloadable Game of 2010, Gamasutra named it the eighth best game of the year as well as the eighth best indie game of the year, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun named it the "game of the year". Indie DB awarded the game the 2010 Indie of the Year award as chosen by voters, in addition to two out of five Editor's Choice awards for Most Innovative and Best Singleplayer Indie . It was also awarded Game of the Year by PC Gamer UK . The game was nominated for the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Technical Excellence, and Excellence in Design awards at the March 2011 Independent Games Festival and won the Grand Prize and the community - voted Audience Award . At Game Developers Choice Awards 2011, Minecraft won awards in the categories for Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable Game and Innovation Award, winning every award for which it was nominated . It also won GameCity's video game arts award . On 5 May 2011, Minecraft was selected as one of the 80 games that would be displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of The Art of Video Games exhibit that opened on 16 March 2012 . At the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards, Minecraft won the award for Best Independent Game and was nominated in the Best PC Game category . In 2012, at the British Academy Video Games Awards, Minecraft was nominated in the GAME Award of 2011 category and Persson received The Special Award . In 2012, Minecraft XBLA was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the Best Downloadable Game category, and a TIGA Games Industry Award in the Best Arcade Game category . In 2013 it was nominated as the family game of the year at the British Academy Video Games Awards . Minecraft Console Edition won the award for TIGA Game Of The Year in 2014 . In 2015, the game placed 6th on USgamer's The 15 Best Games Since 2000 list . In 2016, Minecraft placed 6th on Time's The 50 Best Video Games of All Time list . </P> <P> Minecraft was nominated for the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite App, but lost to Temple Run . It was nominated for the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Video Game, but lost to Just Dance 2014 . The game later won the award for the Most Addicting Game at the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards . In addition, the Java Edition was nominated for "Favorite Video Game" at the 2018 Kids' Choice Awards . </P>

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