History of Minecraft
Minecraft is the second most successful video game of all time. The game was created by Markus Persson and it was developed by Mojang Studios. The game was released in November 2011 and has over 238 million copies sold, it is also the biggest selling pc game of all time. Minecraft allows the player to create anything they want in endless world.
By April 2011 Persson estimated the $33 million of revenue had been made
In Minecraft's first full year of being released, it had reached a revenue of 211 million pounds. In 2014, Microsoft acquired Minecraft intellectual property for $2.5 billion.
Minecraft was released on multiple platforms. in 2012 Minecraft was available for Xbox 360 and Xbox live. Minecraft pocket edition was released on Sony Xperia play and available on Sony Xperia smartphones. Minecraft became available on android and iOS. By 2015 Minecraft reached 30 million copies sold. Minecraft Pi edition, meant for novice programmers and players was also released.
Minecraft made versions of the game that could be purchased over the internet using such outlets the PlayStation network or Xbox live.
Recently in May 2017, physical copies of Minecraft were available for the Nintendo switch and Nintendo 3DS only from September 2017.
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