Minecraft sells 9.2 million

 @jefferson1964 Why would you let your 9 year old play Cod in the first place?

 @Shtinky Also thats Mario probably the biggest selling franchise in history by Nintendo with tons of experienced talent let alone brand name.

 @Shtinky Considering Max Payne is estimated to sell 4 million with a large industry budget and starting funds. This is a huge accomplishment from an indie developer i.e. the guy next door who worked in his basement with a couple $1 banquet meals to survive. Just kidding about the last part but it could be true.

 @Shtinky minecraft is an indie developer and nintendo is the biggest developer. almost 10mill sold for an indie game is an achievement in its own right.

 @Hamza141 I only pirated the pc version because they wouldn't accept my debit card as payment! So I bought the xbox version.

 @Hamza141 And we all know what that means! If there were no piracy Minecraft would have sold 59.2+ million. Amazing.

@Spartan_418

There is a difference between something being "technically demanding" and something taking up a lot of memory. A text document isn't very technically demanding, but there is still a limit to how large a text document you can have open with limited RAM.

Most low end computers these days have 1 - 2 gigs of RAM + some amount of graphical RAM. Most high end computers have 16+ Gb RAM, and 2+ Gb GPU memory. This is essentially an infinite amount of RAM for minecrafts purposes. These other platforms have very limited RAM (half a gig for the 360), and they are also running tons of other things in the background (and most of the time the user can't do anything about these). So you have to draw the line somewhere. I'm glad they didn't do unlimited world for the 360 version. I'm almost positive it would be impossible to do so without loading screens (Take a walk around Morrowind sometime, and see how fun it is to hit a loading wall in a open-world game).

I think they did a great job with the 360 port.

 @Spartan_418 An Android couldn't handle an unlimited world, no way in hell.

 @Spartan_418 I think it's more to do with the development of the game. For example, if Minecraft's 360 version was given the green light for development around the time Minecraft PC was on 1.8 (which was released not long after the game's announcement) then the developers of the 360 version would have to start to build 1.8 from the ground up - knowing they can't release a fully up-to-date port and meet their deadline at the same time.

Given the constraints they must have had to deal with, it was probably a lot more feasible (not to mention profitable) to just release an out of date version and gradually catch up to the PC version post-release.

 @Nemesis958 I think you've missed the point of Minecraft which is to define your own goals within it. The built-in achievements can be such goals, but they are tiny in comparison what you can imagine and pursue by yourself.

 @CptRexKramer Minecraft looks basic on the surface but there is so much more to Minecraft than meets the eye. Wait until you discover the art of automatic farming and how different materials interact with one another such as squid ink and bone meal makes grey dye and sticks combined with wool makes frame pictures. Don't even get me started on redstone wiring.

 @Master_Turismo I see so many people saying they deserve the sales but I don't understand why they "deserve" them. Please explain this to me?

 @Cedar-Teeth If the game is so bad as you say then WTF are you commenting on an article proving 9.2 million times over that you are wrong? Go post on your hardcore photo realistic game on Facebook.

i know you not orlder then 14 since you lack knowlegde of nes or evn the snes. if you care but graphics you shouldnt be playing games in the first place but rather be at an art gallery. then again i am an "old-school gamer". i grew up with games like the legend of zelda, dragon warrior and mike tyson's punch out.

 @Cedar-Teeth many people are enjoying it, and your looking for attention with this comment. me myself i do not play minecraft but its always nice to see what others make.....

@TheArcade The $20 price tag is what's kept me from getting it as well. Now, if it was $15, I'd get this ASAP. In the meantime all I can do is wait for it to drop in price.

 @TheArcade That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten it yet, as I don't believe it's worth $20, especially if others are getting it on PC and IOS for less. I'll probably wait for it to go on sale or just get the PC version.