The famous sandbox-game Minecraft scored today a new sales milestone on Xbox 360, reaching more than 12 million copies purchased.

"I still remember when we started to discuss about the sales figures of our product, and that already would have been thrilled if we had reached one million copies sold" , reported the employee of Mojang Daniel Kaplan on the incredible success of the game. "In doing so we made like Battlefield 1943 and Castle Crashers, both of fantastic games and were pursuing with strong determination. We never dreamed not to sell 12 million! "

Minecraft had already established a record 8 million sales in August , then it means that from that time until now Xbox 360 downloads of the title are increased by 50%.

An incredible finish line that reached from the masterpiece of Mojang , accompany the 14 million copies downloaded until last February on PC and one million copies on the Playstation 3 in just over a month since launching on the PSN, which occurred last December 18.