That Nvidia has bet heavily with Minecraft to implement RayTracing has a very clear reason, and that is today is when we know that the game has managed to exceed 200 million copies sold worldwide, and this milestone comes when Mojang Studios is Celebrating 11 years since the game’s first Alpha was released, and while you think it has only reached that number because of its age, you’re wrong, and this month this game brings together no less than 126 million players.
With these data in hand, Minecraft has been one of the best acquisitions by Microsoft.
Like many other games, Minecraft benefited from the coronavirus pandemic, and that is that during the month of April the game experienced an increase in the number of players of 25 percent, while the multiplayer section experienced a growth of 40 percent.
Microsoft acquired the manufacturer from Mojang Studios, the creator of Minecraft, almost six years ago for $ 2.5 billion, and at the time, it had sold just over 50 million copies on PC. With these data in hand, you can already understand why the Minecraft RTX, since it has a huge market niche, and why it has been one of the best acquisitions from Microsoft.