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.
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Sure, I'll just stick the 24" monitor and the case in my back pocket shall I?
I can play all the Minecraft I want at home, a portable version would have advantages. It's not a choice between one or the other, like some people seem to be making it out to be.
YEA MAN ME TOO :laugh.gif:
Then it's a good thing Microsoft doesn't actually own the rights to Minecraft, huh?
(They do own the rights to Halo, though. Your friend must be one of those self-loathing Halo fans. Or not very knowledgeable about what he's talking about.)
Thanks for Ruining another news update.
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I laughed.
You can say "****". <--- See?
And for the millionth time in this thread alone, you can play it with a controller. Or keep on playing on PC, or on Xperia.
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...what the **** are you talking about?
Seriously, I have to keep checking to make sure I'm not actually at GameFAQs. I expected better from this community.
I'm not really sure why, now that I think about it...
All this is doing is giving a broader spectrum of people a chance to play Minecraft (Ex- people who own crappy computers but have an Xbox.)
This is NOT going to hurt the development of PC Minecraft, Notch even said he had other people working on this while he continued work on the PC updates.
If all goes successful, a new section of forums will probably be made to accomodate the "console ****s".
So stop flooding this board with your hate for console systems. I am pretty sure their are other forums out there for that kind of crap.
Although it may be nice, being able to use far render distance and fancy graphics, my computer is garbage.
It's strange how the moment an indie game might be ported or become popular in the mainstream, all the hipsters and close-minded gamers come out of the woodwork to complain. I can only imagine what will happen when MC comes out of beta; what obscure game will they transition to then?
So I applaud this breakthrough. Congrats, Minecraft, I look forward to the advances in gameplay.
---Change IS good.
It could be interesting to play minecraft using the kinect system (I think) Although I can not see minecraft becoming on the 360, the sweeping success it has been on computer at all. I mean, would people be able to create mods like they do with the computer, or would they be restricted to the vanilla flavor minecraft and maybe any mods microsoft wants to make for it?
Sorry, I do not know a lot about the workings of the 360 and development within the community. I know there are some ways that owners can do game development on the 360, but I do not think it is anywhere near as easy to jump into as it is with the computer version of minecraft.
I can say that I agree with these points though..
1. I would never have bought a 360 for minecraft
2. I would hate to see the forums flooded by some of the flakes I have encountered on the 360 (not all obviously, there are some normal and cool people in 360-land, but there are admittedly a L O T of real mingez)
3. Notch... Seeing MINECRAFT and MICROSOFT together makes my skin crawl
4. There may be a 360 community for minecraft but I can not imagine it being anything like ours, and honestly, I can only imagine the PC/MAC minecraft and the xbox minecraft being essentially two different colored horses. Unless of course microsoft plans to somehow publish minecraft in JAVA and allow console users the same level of modding capabilities and server ownership that we have. (yeah, right)
That's all I can say.
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Also, there will surely be a discount for those who have already purchased the game, right?