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According to my inside source (such as it is) in Microsoft, MS wanted Minecraft bad and gave Mojang a much better deal than the usual indie developer, to say the least. Sony is not going to be able to outbid Microsoft if MS still wants the game at any time in the future.

All that aside, "Can someone port Minecraft" is just not going to happen. Can someone port Halo? I didn't think so. It's not just converting the code (though that in itself is enough to keep 4J Studios busy); it's the access to the platform, which all the platform owners (MS, Sony, and Nintendo) keep pretty tightly controlled. They have the final say in what runs on their consoles. And if Sony allowed a MC port to run on the PS3, they'd have Microsoft, and Microsoft's legion of lawyers, breathing down their necks in moments.

Better idea: buy an XBox 360. Mine (mostly an Elite) cost me all of a hundred bucks at a flea market. While you might not have access to that source (you're apparently in Honduras) there's always eBay. Lots of people are selling them, and they ship.

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Makes perfect sense. MCXBLA has now sold over 8 million copies. If it's not the best selling game on the system yet, I have a feeling it's going to be. There's no way MS is going to let its exclusivity go without a fight.

And MS has more than enough money to fight with. Unless Minecraft sinks dramatically in popularity, I can't see it not being an XBox exclusive for a long time to come.

Beware of old, used 360s. Anything before the Jasper chipset will likely fail prematurely. It's the nature of the misdesigned beast. The slim models seem to be quite reliable. They should be, since the silicon is so much smaller and better integrated.

Mine's from 2009, so it should have the Jasper chipset. I suspect that most of the Falcon, etc., 360's probably died of the Red Ring of Death long ago. But that is an important consideration for buying one off eBay. (in my case, I bought it from a regular vendor at a local flea market, so I could always make a scene at his booth if it failed on me)

It's interesting how much backpedaling Microsoft has done on the XBone. I have to wonder what their pre-order figures looked like ... I suspect rather like the trajectory of a Minecraft player walking off the side of a ravine. With their sudden reversals on, well, pretty much everything, they might have saved it before they hit the lava at the bottom. Seriously, I have to wonder why they thought people wanted, or would buy in a competitive market, a game console that bricks itself if it can't check into the Internet on a daily basis, has some of the most restrictive DRM ever seen, makes resales of games impossible, and requires an always-on microphone and camera, which would allow every script kiddie in the world to find out who has a high-end gaming system and when they're not home.

That last was the deal-killer for me. The Microsoft shills came out in force over that ... "nobody at Microsoft is going to be watching what you do in your living room" ... and drowned out the voices pointing out the real problem: the possibility (probability, given MS's security track record) that the XBone's Kinect system would be hacked, something much more worthwhile with a monoculture of millions of them, and then the information used by burglars who want to target houses where nobody is home and they know that the residents have a high-end gaming system, and therefore probably other things worth stealing. Would-be burglars watch Facebook nowadays. It's easier than physically casing a house, and when someone starts posting vacation pictures from Vegas, they know it's safe to break in. Requiring people to allow a security hole of that magnitude in order to be able to play games is not a good thing.