Apparently aiming to fully exploit the momentum of Minecraft's weird live-action movie, developer Mojang has unveiled a bold new content plan to invigorate the venerable game, reassuring PS5 players that a native port is on the way.
In a grandiose blog post entitled "The Future of Minecraft's Development," Mojang celebrates the game's 15th anniversary and commits to an accelerated content release schedule (thanks, Eurogamer). Instead of the one big Summer update we've seen previously, the developer has now pledged "a number of free game drops throughout the year. These game drops will vary in size and will ring you features to explore more frequently."
On the PS5 front, a native version was announced a couple of months back, and work continues apace, with Mojang declaring: "Minecraft is better when friends can play together on whichever device they want. Over the coming year, we’ll also be exploring ways to improve Minecraft’s multiplayer experience and make it easier to find and connect with friends."
Are you ready to go back down the Minecraft rabbit hole on PS5? Do you still dabble in the meticulously crafted sandbox game? Construct a response in the comments section below.
[source minecraft.net]
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WOW, Microsoft is getting really soft. Now they're putting MINECRAFT on PlayStation!? Absolutely unbelievable. Xfart Game Studios is so dead. What's next, Minecraft on mobile?
It's ridiculous this 600+ employee company needs almost four years to produce a PS5 and a Series X version of the game. "b-but Sony provided them PS5 devkits just recently and they didn't want to release the Series X version before PS5 due to either parity or contractual obligations with Sony or Mojang!!" is something I have heard a few times, but as far as I'm aware no confirmation exists for that theory. Until it does I'll keep calling Mojang one of the laziest companies around. Considering the amount of content they can produce each year I'm much more inclined to believe they're just lazy anyway.
They are probably waiting for the Minecraft movie to release in theatres before pushing the PS5 version, 4 years too late I’m afraid
For a moment there I was afraid they canceled the PS5 native version
You can download "Minecraft Preview" on PS5 right now. You need to launch the PS4 game and download it through that
Where is the ray tracing version??
@Bamila If it turns out to not look any nicer on current gen then that would definitely be a missed opportunity. I'm not entirely optimistic.
@BigJoze That's just the same game but with worlds that are locked to the Preview and runs at a higher resolution. I think the whole point of the native version would be to include things like a higher fps/render distance/textures etc.
@Amzoral no, "Minecraft Preview" on PS5 is a PS5 version, it IS a native version to PS5...
Playing the PS5 version now. Just starting and it looks promesing.
@BigJoze I never said Preview wasn't native. I was trying to compare it to the native PS4/Bedrock/Non-Preview version
@Bamila not going to happen on current gen consoles. RT is a dead horse at this point.
Mojang are working on something called physical based rendering or PBR instead. It's not RT but it's a big step up on plain vanilla Minecraft. It's something they can implement on all Minecraft platforms (inc mobile).
It's not part of the current PS5 preview yet afaik but has been on the Series X/S Minecraft Preview for over a year at this point and I expect that once the native version is sorted out you all might get access to it too.
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