UPDATE: Notch confirms separate team is working on the Minecraft for XBOX Live Arcade. More details to follow later.
The game, based on the images shown at the press conference, retains its classic graphics style. One huge reveal for the console port, however, is that it's coming complete with Kinect functionality.
This looks to be a big week for Minecraft, as the mobile version will be demoed on the Xperia Play during the E3 Expo as well.
If you'd like to hear it yourself, it's around the 1:30 mark.
Be sure to follow Curse's E3 coverage this week!
says the guy who is blatantly an Xbox *****
Porting Minecraft to Xbox, or really any console, is just a plain bad idea. You don't have the original dev team working on it; you don't get modding or texture pack support; constantly updating it will be a pain (and from seeing XBLA's business practices you'll probably have to pay for them too) and communicating in multiplayer is impossible - you can't type on a controller (let alone a kinect) and the majority of the console population can't use/don't have microphones.
I wonder what they meant that 'it won't be a direct console port'. Will it actually end up being creative mode like the Sony phone? Will the guys working on Xboxcraft make their own crappy updates? Maybe they'll make diamond tools cost 150M$ points each. The possibilities are endless...
How else do you expect to download it onto your 360?
Yes, porting games to other systems and exposing them to the widest possible audience "is just a plain bad idea", and has never before been done in the history of gaming ever. Nor has a port ever been handled by a development team other than the original. And it's true, I can't tell you how many patches and updates I've had to pay for while playing on LIVE (hint: the number rhymes with "hero"). Truly, if these things bother you so much, guess what? You don't have to buy it and can keep on playing your beloved PC version! Amazing concept, right?
Again I ask, have any of you even played an Xbox? Or are you just making things up to fuel your paranoid, pathetic conjecture and create drama where there really isn't any? About a video game. Again, I see a bunch of people bitching about the "high standards" of the community being compromised by this influx of console gamers, yet it seems to me most of you are borderline illiterate, whiny little children that rant and rave and cry about things you don't actually know anything about. You're literally no better than the system fanboys over at GameFAQs that **** themselves whenever they lose a system exclusive. For a bunch of holier-than-thou PC elitists, you sure act an awful lot like the folks you claim are about to ruin everything.
And a few bits of info for those having a hard time keeping up:
YOU DO NOT NEED KINECT TO PLAY MINECRAFT. IT WILL WORK FINE WITH A CONTROLLER.
THE GAME IS BEING PUBLISHED BY MICROSOFT GAME STUDIOS. THIS MEANS IT'S AN EXCLUSIVE. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE PORTED TO PS3. GET THE **** OVER IT.
HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED ALL VERSIONS OF A GAME YOU BOUGHT FOR ONE PLATFORM FOR FREE? YEAH, ME NEITHER. SO WHY WOULD MINECRAFT XBLA BE ANY DIFFERENT?
THE XBLA VERSION IS BEING HANDLED BY A DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT TEAM, SO YOUR PRECIOUS PC VERSION WILL CONTINUE ON AS IT ALWAYS HAS. THE PORT DOES NOT AFFECT YOU IN ANY WAY IF YOU WISH TO KEEP PLAYING ON PC. SO STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF WALKING VAGINAS.
Back on topic, this is obviously a huge mistake. What happened to being independent? What happened to Mojang saying "not going to be going on consoles" huh? What happened to that?
Honestly, this is abunch of crap and I hope that this is just a joke. No console should have Minecraft.
Period.
A bunch*
You understand that Mojang is still an independent developer, right? Unless you're about to insinuate that games like Super Meat Boy, Braid, Castle Crashers, and the bit.trip series are all, in fact, owned and developed by corporate juggernauts.
Quick question: why does this make you so angry? Have you taken a step back and said to yourself, "God damn, I'm getting really agitated by a video game getting ported...maybe it's time I reevaluate my life?"
Because you probably should.
You better get over it soon.
i no rite?
These forums are worse than YouTube commenters.