And that's counting sales to folks in Antarctic
Okay, so Minecraft wasalready kinda-sorta the second-bestselling game of all time if you don’t countWii Sports, which was a pack-in, and I’m loathe to count stuff you can’t buy standalone. But yes, on the basis of conventional video game sales leaderboards, with over 100 million copies sold (106,859,714 to be precise) across PC, mobile and console in the pocket, Minecraft is now officially second only to that all-time, all-platforms, indefatigable puzzling juggernaut, Tetris.
Tetris has something like half a billion on the books if the entrepreneurial math here is right. So there’s probably no way Minecraft is going to beat that, probably ever. But consider the next-bestselling game (excluding Wii Sports) is Grand Theft Auto V, with an impressive but presumably now creeping 65 million copies. After that, the list slides off fast and features as many decades-old games as recent ones. Not yet five years old, Minecraftis the singular definition of a phenomenon in this industry. (And it will remain so, with Microsoft reporting the game has been selling at an average pace of 53,000 copies a day since the start of this year.)
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