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!
They really are; this is some dregs 'o the Internet material, to be sure. I like how not a single person has attempted to argue (with facts and not their imagination) why this will be such a disastrous move or counter a single thing that's been said by the handful of console owners that have appeared since the announcement. Could it be because they don't actually have an argument at all, and need a reason to have a pity party? Let's cry together, guys.
I also like how all but a few posters can actually read. I'm sure that twenty pages from now, there will still be people bitching about how the game is Kinect-only, drawing resources away from the PC version because Notch is focusing on the Xbox version, asking if it will be free because they bought it on PC, and begging for a PS3 version. Oh, and let's not forget all the Microsoft-bashing from their computers that are running a Microsoft OS (the same OS they play Minecraft with).
For such an outspoken group of PC elitists, they sure are ignorant.
http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp
Now, who is complaining about consoles and "Xbox kids"?
I'm willing to bet these PC elitists are "PC kids", the same exact thing as the "Xbox kids" they are protesting against
*sigh*
1. These forums already appear to be a haven for children and the illiterate. And the only people I see starting and fueling "flame-wars" are the regulars that are crying about the game being ported. Nearly all pro-console posts that have been made during the past few days are articulate and loaded with level-headed common sense and research. From the PC crowd I see "OMFG NOTCH IS A TRAITOR THEY'RE KILLING OUR GAME THE END IS ****ING NIGH CONSOLES SUUUUUUUUUUUCK CALL OF DUTY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU".
Edit: Have you played on LIVE? How often do you run into "whiny little 8-year-olds"? I mostly encounter the late teen to mid-30's demographic you see on every other network, including PC. This notion that PC gamers have the market cornered on intelligence and maturity is laughable. Shall I quote for you the pages of stupid **** the "elite" have vomited forth in this thread? You people seriously need to take a look in the mirror.
2. The Xbox port is being made in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios. It's being taken from one platform that runs on a Microsoft OS and placed on another. What evidence do you have that this will result in an even smaller core development group, anyway? Also, in what way is the Kinect a "financially failing addition"? It's sold 10 million+ units in a year (double what the Wii sold in the same amount of time) and has been a massive hit, so much so that this year's E3 was entirely focused on it (http://mashable.com/2011/03/09/kinect-10-million/). Again, I'm going to assume you're just pulling these "facts" out of your ass to support your flimsy gripe. And hey:
YOU DON'T NEED KINECT TO PLAY THE GAME.
Also, the Wii U isn't slated to come out until some time in 2012, so how does that make any sense at all?
Edit: Not to mention the added challenge of coding Minecraft from the ground up on an entirely new platform, which would actually make the supposed "problems" you bring up regarding lack of manpower even worse.
3. I don't understand what Terraria has to do with anything. Are you actually claiming that Minecraft will be eclipsed by it because it's not finished yet and a simple port to XBLA is slowing things down too much?
Terraria sales: 200,000+ (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-hits-200-000-sales-mark.12105/)
Minecraft sales: 2,000,000, while still in beta, and before hitting XBLA (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/25/minecraft-sales-hit-mind-boggling-two-million-mark.aspx)
4. See above.
5. Your arguments are horrible.
Look ok, I know what it is like to be a major fanboy. I'm a COUGH* ZELDAFAG COUGH*. You don't have to get really deffensive when somebody dilikes a desicion that you love. You just accept both sides and move on.
Jesus Christ, do ANY of you read these threads before posting?
You know who disagrees? Notch. The guy that made the game. So maybe it wasn't "developed to be played on a computer for a reason" after all. You're welcome to tell him he's wrong though, since you've such keen insight into the development process.
And you can still play it on the computer, as it turns out. So your problem is...?
Pc development Gets: $500,000 Xbox get other
More money=Better game.
JUST AS A STATEMENT!! NOT REAL AMOUNTS OF $$$.
GIVE THIS GUY A MEDAL!!!
I agree...The Kinect is a 3D camera. At the keynote they were demonstrating how you will be able to scan in 3D objects and textures. Maybe thats what they mean by KINECT ENABLED.
People are so stuck on gesturing...do some research...think outside the box...stop being so reactionary...
If there is gesturing, Im sure it will be simple pointing at the screen to select stuff in your inventory, but since not everyone has a Kinect, Im sure it going to have to be optional.
THATS WHAT I WANT IN THE NEXT MC UPDATE! :smile.gif: lol