After 17 years, you would think that everyone interested in Minecraft would’ve played it at least once. Well, apparently we’re not even close to running out of people who haven’t touched the blocky survival game yet. XBOX CEO Asha Sharma revealed that more than 300,000 people still play Minecraft for the first time on an average day. Mojang’s juggernaut itself has already sold more than 425 million copies worldwide.
“More than 300,000 people play Minecraft for the first time on an average day,” Sharma wrote on X. “After 17+ years and 425M+ copies sold, I love that Minecraft is still finding new players and giving longtime ones new things to discover.”
To put that number into perspective, 300,000 newcomers every day works out to around 2.1 million first-time players per week. Keep that pace going for a year, and nearly 110 million people would discover Minecraft for the first time. That’s roughly one-third of the entire US population picking up the game for the very first time every year.
While still a far cry from Roblox‘s 144 million daily users, both numbers show just how ridiculously large the audience for blocky games has become.
The game’s latest milestone was announced following the most recent Minecraft LIVE event. The livestream show brought plenty of announcements, including Minecraft Dungeons II and the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 release on October 27. Mojang will also add the new Sift update, Minecraft‘s first new dimension in more than 14 years since the End.
The mysterious Sift area will make its debut in Minecraft Dungeons II when it launches on September 29. The dimension will then make the jump to Minecraft Java and Bedrock sometime in 2027, although exact details haven’t been announced yet.
All things considered, maybe the real mystery isn’t what’s hiding inside the Sift. It’s how Mojang keeps finding people who somehow made it through the last 17 years without ever touching Minecraft.
