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Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
350,000,000
copies
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
It is the best selling game there has ever been, so start from how many people play games at all, something like 3 billion worldwide. What share of them own Minecraft? It is on every platform and it has been out 15 years. Maybe one in ten.
- People who play games
- ≈ 3,000,000,000
- Share who own Minecraft
- ≈ 1 in 10
- 3B ÷ 10
- ≈ 300,000,000 copies
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Copies sold, all platforms
- 350,000,000
- Certified by
- Guinness World Records
- Best selling video game of all time
- confirmed
Reference cited by Fermi: Guinness World Records, best selling video game, and Mojang's Minecraft Annual 2026
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