Minecraft is truly the little game that could. As the game moves forward it has accumulated 8 million units sold on the PC alone according to the tweet from Markus Persson.
[blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/notch/status/267962794165547008"]When you add in the downloads of the XBLA version (approx 4 millions downloads) of the game, Minecraft is in the top 50 best selling games ever. Congratulations are certainly in order.