How do you know when a mobile app is popular? The fact that one application can be installed on more than 30 million devices around the world is a pretty good indication that the app has high popularity. One of the apps that has done that recently is the Minecraft Pocket Edition app. According to the latest news sources, Minecraft Pocket Edition has hit more than 30 million downloads and has been called “hotter than the sun”.
Keep in mind that this is the mobile version of the popular game that is also available for the PC, Xbox and Playstation consoles. For those that are playing it on the Windows PC or the Mac from Apple, the game has been purchased more than 18 million times. If you are looking to play the Minecraft Pocket Edition wherever you are when you are not at home, it is going to cost you just $7 and you can play it on the Android, iOS, Windows Phone and the Amazon Kindle Fire operating systems.
Minecraft Pocket Edition has been seeing very good growth recently and some of that could be contributed to the fact that many consumers get new smartphones, tablets and laptop devices during the holidays and love to load them up with apps and other games. According to one online source, the Minecraft Pocket Edition game was the second highest grossing game for the iOS platform on the entire globe and that was with stiff competition from apps like Gears of War and the very popular Candy Crush Saga.
The game has only been on the market for about 6 years now and it is still doing very well in terms of downloads. The game is available for the PC, Mac, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita and the Xbox 360. Recently the company behind the game was acquired by Microsoft for a cool $2 billion and that will buy a lot of whatever you want to buy.
The game has been around before the “free to play” craze started and has been one of the most successful applications to download to a mobile device since the first iPhone showed up in 2007. The game has always been $6.99 and with that being said has generated more than $210 million in revenue.The game has made the developer and creator a lot of money up until he sold it and now it will easily make Microsoft money for many years to come. The game has been updated many times and recently just allowed players to change their names inside the game, but that is only one of many advancements the developers have made.