At Christmas, the pocket version of Minecraft earned almost $ 2 million, the creators of the project from the Mojang indie studio said and shared new information about sales of the entire line of their franchise.
During the Christmas week, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was bought 706,419 times, and on the day of the holiday itself – 283,939 times. Considering the price of $6.99, we can say that in one day (December 25), mobile Minecraft earned $1,984,734. Even taking into account the 30% commission that Apple and Google will take for themselves, it turns out $ 1,389,313. The annual revenue of Minecraft: Pocket Edition exceeded $ 41 million.
As of January 10, 5,899,727 downloads of this game were recorded (total data for iOS and Android). Recall that in mid-December 2012, the game reached the milestone of 5 million.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition is the most profitable of all versions of the game. It accounts for 39% of all earnings.