Minecraft sales near 54 million copies as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions outsell the PC original

If you want to build something great in Minecraft, you do it one block at a time. For example, developer Mojang sold one copy of Minecraft at a time — and now it has millions of players.

The studio revealed yesterday that it has sold nearly 54 million copies of Minecraft across all platforms. Mojang data analyst Patrick Geuder also announced that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions passed the PC and Mac versions in terms of copies sold. This comes just a few months after the game finally debuted digitally on PlayStation 3 in December.