Minecraft for consoles exclusive to Xbox 360, building spring 2012 launch

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 25th 2011 11:15AM

Markus "Notch" Persson has confirmed via Twitter that the console version of Minecraft, announced during E3 for Xbox 360, will be exclusive to Microsoft's system (meaning no PSN or WiiWare versions). The game will arrive on Xbox Live in the spring of 2012.

Those heading to MineCon in Las Vegas next month will be able to try out the Xbox 360 version. The PC version is also being completed, having already sold millions in its beta state. Those heading to MineCon will receive alpha codes for Mojang's Scrolls and Cobalt.

Via: IGN
Source: Twitter - @notch

Tags: Markus-Persson, microsoft, Minecraft, Mojang, notch, xbla, xbox

Reader Comments (60)

As a person who owns a PS3 and a Wii, loves Minecraft but only ever plays on my brothers account because i have yet to obtain a decent gaming PC... My reaction;

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

@Red Deer

As a person who owns all the consoles, I say, "It doesn't make a difference to me."

@Red Deer

I have all three systems, but I feel for you; this game really should be over more consoles. As it is now, it's not for consoles, just *ONE* console, so you might as well say "XBox Exclusive".

But who knows in the future? If Microsoft doesn't hammer them too much in their contract, it can eventually come out for other consoles at a later date, assuming sales are good on the XBox.

You don't need any kind of special PC to play Minecraft...

@danielsloan

Uh... It runs on Java, and Java is the king of memory leakage, so yeah, I'd say you DO need a pretty good machine to run Minecraft.

Most of the time I'm seeing 1-2 gigs of memory in use just for playing, don't get me started on serving as a server.

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies
Sure, then buy more RAM. RAM upgrades are cheap. Does Java really need a screaming CPU and GPU, compared to RAM?

@Red Deer As a person who has yet to play Minecraft, what's all the fuss about? Make chet out of squares...okay...and?

@Red Deer theres a solution. Get a Xbox you got a ton of games your missing out on.

@Mr Dude

It's more of a survival game than just "making things out of squares". Think of this, you're put on an island with nothing. You have a day to create a shelter and get the necessary materials to stay alive because at night, a bunch of zombies, skeletons, giant spiders, and exploding green things come out. Once you get settled enough where can hide at night it's about upgrading. You use wood to get stone, use stone to get iron, iron to get diamond, and then diamond to get obsidian. Once you have obsidian you can get to The Nether (which is a hell-like other dimension) and get a bunch of new things and new challenges.

There is obviously a LOT more to it than just that. But that's the basic concept of Minecraft. The great thing about it though is that there is no specific set of rules that you have to follow in order to play. You can play however you want.

@sigma8
This could be right up your alley

http://downloadmoreram.com/

@danielsloan

Ever tried to run Minecraft on a Dell Latitude D610 laptop??

No??? It's a damn painful experience dude. Plus all this University Debt says building a brand new gaming rig might not be the most sensible choice at this moment and time.

@Red Deer
Dude... Little Big Planet. or if you're really that hard up just play the actual PC version. Not like it's that difficult.

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies

That's not because of Java, that's because of Notch.

@XaiaX

Notches incompetence aside, using java isn't helping.

Wait wait; Alpha codes for Scrolls?

But Skyrim's already in Beta, what gives? Is this a game BEYOND Skyrim? Are we already seeing Scrolls SIX?

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies

Terrible joke is terrible.

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies I laughed until I realised this is exactly what Bethesda's legal dumbos think is going to happen.

@ItsameMatt03

At least I'm not using an age old memetic device from the internet.

Not that I'd expect someone who uses age old memetic devices to understand what that even means.

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies
Sweet, can't wait to get my hands on some of those aged scrolls! There's some good, ancient reading to be had there!

Also, I hear there will be unlimited squares.

Well, there go my dreams of a PSN version with cross-platform play.

@APCMice For a year.

@APCMice

Notch changes his statements and EULAs like a Minecraft Player changes Skins; especially when it comes to possibilities of making money.

Expect him to say "Oh, I said exclusive, but here's PS3!" soon enough.

@Copybass Ah jeez zombies
Right, and... Explain this to me:
Console exclusive: Microsoft Xbox360
Mobile exclusive (for now?): Sony Xperia Play

??

@sigma8
I think that speaks for it self really.

@APCMice

Give it some time, unless there's wads of cash that say otherwise.

@sigma8

It's not exclusive to the xperia play you can download it off the android marketplace for any phone.

And even before that if you could still install it on any android phone when it was "exclusive" to the XP.

Oh no!

Whatever will I do, I'd better go buy an Xbox 360!

/looks at magnificent Master Race PC version

Oh. Nevermind.

I can't imagine this game is very well suited to consoles anyway.

Weird that this is a 360 exclusive, but I'm not complaining as a Microtwit.

shouldnt this be called "mincraft for console" then?

OMG those graphics look terrible!!! Whut??

Nooo, they said it would be out in 2011! Hopefully we can atleast participate in testing builds up until launch like with the PC version.

Is it still exclusive to the Xperia Play?I downloaded the Minecraft Pocket Edition Demo onto my Nexus S this morning, unless of course I'm thinking of something else.

who cares... minecraft is a flash in the pan anyway

@crazybi0

What? That sounds like something my 80 year old grandfather would say.

@crazybi0 - more like a giant nuclear bomb in a pan. Not too many games can claim the number of sales Minecraft has had to date WHILE IN BETA. And then there's the folks that will pick it up once it goes 'gold' ..

That said, it's not for everyone.

@TraceurRyuk Part III your gramps must be pretty hip then ya little ho cake

@That One Guy yep skyrim will make minecraft look like the little POS that it is

Limbo was a 360 exclusive for a while, then it came out on PS3. Who knows....

@The Scout So were Braid, Castle Crashers, Castlevania Harmony of Whatever, Bionic Commando (I think?) and a bunch of other games. "Exclusive to XBLA" just means "exclusive for six months or a year" to me.

@Roto13

The majority of those games that were exclusive for a while were only exclusive because the developers signed a deal to get in on one of MSs seasonal promotions.

There a ton of other games which are and always have been exclusive to XBLA.

@Roto13

still sad that there's no Super Meat Boy on PSN. ohh well, now that all the hype has pretty much died down for that game it's probably not even worth it to release it on PSN.

Having not played Minecraft but looking at the ship in that screenshot, can you actually create a ship (or any kind of vehicle) that can move?

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ
I've seen videos of moving vehicles but as far as I can tell they're only useable in singleplayer. and the 360 version is supposedly stripped down so it's questionable if you'd be able to even build the same things on the first day without patches.

@Crayola Q Pants ESQ

Not really. There are mine carts and canoes and you can do some neat tricks with a substance called redstone powder that sort of imitates electrical current, but you can't exactly build the Pillar of Autumn and fly around in it.

MotherF*****

Sony has a ton of 1st and 3rd party exclusives for their system anyways. I don't mean to troll, but it seems like MS is really losing out against Sony in terms of exclusives recently.

@nerdydesi1 I don't know man. I'm not missing anything. I mean at least the arcade/download games are way better on 360 but you must mean the uncharteds and Infamous.

@kcwanko

I think he's right. Sony has Microsoft beat (for me at least, it is still preference) in terms of exclusives. Both downloadable and retail. The only two games I can think of on XBLA that I would want to play is Splosion Man, Bastion, and Minecraft (even though I have a PC). We got Dead Nation, all the Pixeljunk games, Echochrome, Flower, Journey (soon), Fat Princess (which is a lot better after all the updates), Joe Danger, Sam and Max, etc.

@TraceurRyuk Part III

There are Sam & Max games on XBLA. There's also that recent article on Joystiq which has Joe Danger rated by the Korean ratings board for XBLA.

XBLA also has all the Twisted Pixel games, Crimson Alliance, Half-Minute Hero, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Monday Night Combat, Shadow Complex, Darwinia, The Dishwasher games, the Toy Soldiers games, Trenched, Trials, etc... the list goes on. All of them available only on XBLA (with some on PC via services such as steam and GFWL)

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