Minecraft: Pocket Edition downloaded more than 280,000 times on Christmas Day, more than 5.8 million times in 2012

Minecraft developer and publisher Mojang recently released download figures for their sandbox building game on PC and Mac, Xbox Live Arcade and mobile version — Pocket Edition — on iOS and Android.

Mojang saw a massive spike in downloads on all platforms during Christmas week, with 283,939 downloads for Minecraft: Pocket Edition on Christmas Day and 706,419 downloads during Christmas week. The mobile version of Minecraft, which is priced at $6.99, saw 5,899,727 total downloads in 2012.

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