Minecraft is available to players for twenty seven dollars. When purchased players can access single player and multiplayer game modes using the launcher. Minecraft Classic is available to play for free. Minecraft development started around May 10, …show more content…
After its subscription with Sony expired, it was released for Android devices on October 7, 2011, and IOS devices on November 17, 2011, for seven dollars. On April 2, 2014 Minecraft was released for the Amazon Fire TV. It contains all of the same features as the Pocket Edition as well as support for the Fire TV’s controller.
On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Arcade for twenty dollars, where it subsequently broke every previous sales record.
On February 11, 2013, Minecraft Pi Edition was released for the Raspberry Pi. It is based on the Pocket Edition and is available for free. The Pi Edition is intended as an educational tool for the novice programmers and users are encouraged to open and change the game’s code using its API.
On December 11, 2013 it was released for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store for twenty dollars. The release was almost identical to the Xbox 360 Edition and was developed together with the Xbox 360 from then on.
On June 26, 2014, the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 edition sales passed the number of sales for the PC edition of Minecraft, leaving the minecraft series having sold more than 54 million copies worldwide and become third best selling video game of all