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Minecraft: Pocket Edition passes 1 million sales

Mojang's Minecraft: Pocket Edition, has continued to see impressive sales on mobile platforms, and has since reached more than 1 million units sold.

Tom Curtis, Blogger

March 2, 2012

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Newsbrief: Mojang's Minecraft: Pocket Edition, has continued to see impressive sales on mobile platforms, and has since reached more than 1 million units sold. The company's Daniel Kaplan broke the news on Friday, just several weeks after announcing the game had sold 700,000 units. The game originally launched as a timed exclusive for Sony's Xperia Play, and has since debuted on other Android devices and iOS platforms. Currently, the title costs quite a bit more than many other popular mobile games, bearing a comparatively hefty price tag of $6.99.

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Tom Curtis

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Tom Curtis is Associate Content Manager for Gamasutra and the UBM TechWeb Game Network. Prior to joining Gamasutra full-time, he served as the site's editorial intern while earning a degree in Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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