Minecraft: Pocket Edition Is Officially 'hotter Than The Sun'

How popular is the mobile version of Minecraft? According to Mojang the most recent blog post is pretty popular. According to the company- which, by the way was recently bought by Microsoft and Microsoft Minecraft: Pocket Edition is larger than Texas, 23 times hotter than the Sun and "more than the entire observed universe." Mojang also has a 30-million statistic for those who want to check out the actual numbers. RUNESCAPE This is the number of times the pint-sized version of the game has been purchased.

Debuting long before the free-to-play trend became a "thing," Minecraft: Pocket Edition sells for a staggering US$6.99 on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, and has never really had any price adjustments, which means the game has earned $210 million in revenue. This is quite a bit of cheddar. And with its high App Store rank it's expected to continue making money for many years to come.