Minecraft developer Mojang looks back on 5 years of the Pocket Edition as it prepares version 1.0

Minecraft: Pocket Edition came out five years ago, but it is actually only about to turn 1.0.

Mojang is preparing to roll out the Ender Update to Pocket Edition, which will finally complete the full-game loop that players on PC and console have had for years now. This 1.0 patch will essentially make Pocket Edition equivalent to the 1.0 version of the original Java version of Minecraft for the PC, but it will also introduce new features, such as support for Oculus’s VR Touch controllers on the Windows 10 offshoot of Pocket Edition. But with this update coming nearly a half decade after the introduction of Minecraft for iOS and Android, the team at Mojang can’t help but look back at the path that led up to this point for the popular block-builiding game that is one of the best-selling premium priced apps on mobile devices with over 40 million copies sold across iOS and Android. That’s an enormous chunk of the more than 100 million copies sold for Microsoft’s franchise.