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Mincraft Becomes The Best-selling Game With 176 Million Copies Sold

Recently, Minecraft just celebrate their 10th anniversary with a special theme park map. This is definitely very thrilling for every Minecraft players. However, most impressively of all, Mincraft just became the best-selling game last week. If you have an app and want to get app installs, then Apprb is the one you need to seek help from.

In a post on Microsoft's official website about the 10-year celebration, creative director Saxs Persson revealed Minecraft has now sold 176 million copies worldwide, which means it's the best-selling game of all time now. Previously, the game Tetris holds the position of best-selling game for years. Now, Minecraft take it's place with 176 million sold worldwide. It's definitely another milestone in game industry. 

This impressive figure is for unit sales across its entire lifetime on every platform, including mobile. At more than 176 million copies sold, Minecraft may be the best-selling video game of all time. Tetris is considered its closest rival, but it is difficult to compare the two games due to the different versions of the block-matching puzzler.

There are estimates that suggest Tetris has been downloaded more than 500 million times, but with the different spin-offs, it is hard to keep track and make a direct comparison with Minecraft. The better comparison would be the also still wildly popular Grand Theft Auto V, which has sold about 110 million copies after launching in 2013.

In celebration of the milestone, Microsoft also announced Minecraft Earth, a free-to-play augmented reality game for mobile phones that looks to bring the game's mechanics into the real world. It looks to better utilize AR technology compared to Pokémon Go, while staying true to the world-building experience with the same Bedrock engine used in all other versions of the game.

Minecraft Earth will feature microtransactions, but details on that remain scarce. The developers claim that it will not be a pay-to-win game, but that is also unclear because there will be no player vs. player mode in the mobile game. More details may get released soon and there is no doubt this new game will be very incredible. If you are a developer who needs app rank boosting service, then come to Apprb now. We will never let you down!