Minecraft for PlayStation to be considered, Wii U 'unlikely'
Minecraft has an exclusivity arrangement with Microsoft still in effect, but when that runs out Mojang's Jens Bergensten says they'll "consider" a PlayStation version. A Wii U port, on the other hand, is "very unlikely."
Minecraft has been a hit on Xbox 360, becoming one of the chart-toppers on Xbox Live and most recently hitting the five million sales mark. Other consoles would probably enjoy some of that action, and for Sony it's a possibility. Nintendo? Not so much.
"Microsoft has an exclusivity deal for consoles," Mojang's Jens Bergensten told iGamer (via Edge). "When it runs out we'll consider Minecraft for PlayStation, but Wii U is very unlikely."
The interview didn't shed any light on just when that exclusivity arrangement might run out, but the game is coming up on its year anniversary in May. At that point, we might hear more about PlayStation plans.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Minecraft for PlayStation to be considered, Wii U 'unlikely'.
Minecraft has an exclusivity arrangement with Microsoft still in effect, but when that runs out Mojang's Jens Bergensten says they'll "consider" a PlayStation version. A Wii U port, on the other hand, is "very unlikely."-
The Wii U news keeps getting worse.
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There was something else recently as well where they said they'd thought about it, but it wasn't worth it.
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Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 said it wasn't worth it to them to make a port for the WiiU. Not sure if that's what you're talking about.
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I think that's the one.
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I would think Wii U would be the best console platform for this type of game, wonder why they are ruling it out.
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install base, cost in money/time to develop all the 2nd screen feature, or just plain not wanting to do it. It really could be anything.
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Minecraft, I remember that.
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it would sell like hotcakes on the wii u demographic........and the controller usage.....damn.
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yah it seems like a no brainer... but I keep hearing nothing but bad news for the WiiU.
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Wii U is a dead console, Nintendo should just start getting ready to make their games for other consoles. it's over.
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^said before the wii and gamecube as well
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Please, the Gamecube and Wii were never this bad off.
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yah the Wii started selling like hotcakes... there is pretty much no hype surrounding the WiiU in the general public.
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Yup. I've met a lot of people who didn't understand that the WiiU was a new system, rather than a tablet add-on to the Wii (if they knew about it at all).
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They either ditch the branding of the enormously successful Wii and therefore start from scratch in mainstream brand-recognition, or they stick with the Wii moniker and have those same people think it's just an add-on for the Wii they already have.
The problem is the "mainstream" audience doesn't follow gaming news, they don't know WTF, so Nintendo is stuck either way. And much of the "hardcore" contingent has disowned Nintendo for the unforgivable sin of pursuing something other than more graphics. I mean let's face it, a significant proportion of gamers bitterly resented the motion control revolution because their idea of progress is the same shitty shooter they played last year with a little more frosting on top.
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like the Playstation? or the Playstation 2? or the Playstation 3? or the soon to be Playstation 4?
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hum... Wii U =/= Wii 2. That would have been an obvious thing to people (but it sounds bad and it ain't Wii 2, as far as the controls & general orientation Nintendo wanted to give it)
Incremental numbers transmit the idea of evolution. A letter or word doesn't, especially when Wii U stands at the side of Wii Fit or any other addon for the original Wii. -
Iterative numbering makes sense to people. If you have a Playstation and I have a Playstation 2, I'd bet even without knowing anything about videogames, you could assume the one is better, newer, etc than the other. Wii and Wii U? That's confusing.
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Or iPad, iPad2, iPad and then iPad and iPad mini ?
its lol worthy, and I don't really understand the reason they name them like that, I get it they want to make it an an ubiquitous device living outside hardware specs, but still customers have to buy them and the stores have several generations in stock, which one do you choose ? the iPad or the iPad ?
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Smart money is on all consoles launching soft in 2013, IMO. Price points will get lower and things will shake out in a year or two.
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Yup, and it's been over since 1996. It's a pretty long time to be in denial, you got to admire their moxy.
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Right, and they can tighten their belts and survive until things turn around.
Just saying, I've been hearing predictions of Nintendo dying and going multiplatform since the N64, and it ain't happened yet.
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isn't nintendo the only one making money? Sony's games division has been in the red forever
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Well they're not making money right now, but you identified their disadvantage - they don't have other businesses to divert money and resources from to prop up their gaming division. Gaming is all they do.
So they either make affordable hardware that gets derided as underpowered, they make expensive hardware that no one could buy (they can't afford to subsidize and they're selling the Wii U at a minor loss as it is), or they just pursue the failed GameCube strategy and put out a pointless me-too system that can't keep up with the big boys.
Or they give up on systems entirely and just make games for whatever hardware other companies happen to throw their way? People really want that?
I guess it would save you some cash if you already have one of the other systems and you sneer at Nintendo's inventions as "gimmicks", but it's not for me. I'd have to buy a Sony or MS system I wouldn't otherwise want, would cost more, and would have the games hamstrung by the lack of imagination those companies bring to their hardware.
The day that Nintendo stops making hardware is the day their full creative freedom to deliver the experience they want, dies. So while some are clearly looking to bring about that day as soon as possible, I'm not enthused. -
Sony had to sell their US headquarters to keep themselves going, and Nintendo is the one that is failing hard in people's eyes?
I'm not saying the WiiU is dominating anything, but the usual "llol Nintendo is dead" thing every cycle is getting as old as "PC gaming is dead" and "year of the Linux desktop."
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Yes. But it's not surprising, a lot of people hate Nintendo. I don't understand it in the slightest, but that's the facts.
I mean EA, Ubisoft, Activision, even MS... I can see that. It still strikes me as silly to hold a grudge like that, but can see the reasons why someone would actively dislike those companies.
Nintendo? What the fuck did Nintendo do to anybody to earn this? It boggles my mind.
When did this happen where most of the gaming community found reason to treat Ninty with such habitual disdain? Someone please explain this to me because I have yet to hear an even halfways logical explanation.-
It's not just posters on the internet, either. It's the entire gaming industry. These articles illustrate how developers seem to be going out of their way to shun Nintendo even for games that would be great on the system.
"Low install base", well no shit! Because you won't make any games! What a self fulfilling prophecy. All consoles start out with a low install base, it never stopped you before... -
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I think there's a lot of factors, but this is definitely one of them.
In addition, I can't shake the feeling that a large number of Wii U owners are also PS3 or 360 owners, and that when making multiplatform titles at this point, you can count on technical parity across systems, but then the Wii U has its weird controller that (I assume) customers expect to do something, so making a Wii U version means extra dev costs to do something with the tablet. -
Except so far I've heard the exact opposite for the WiiU, they are even funding Bayonetta 2 for Platinum and they aren't even first or second party. Indie devs liken the eShop to Steam for how easy it is to get a game on it now compared to the WiiShop which was terrible.
I think Nintendo really needs to start being a bit more vocal, swallow their pride and acknowledge that they need to get more people on board.
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And that's as fair a reason as any to not buy into their new hardware, but to actively take pleasure at their misfortune? Why?
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That's not really a reason.
If the internet jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
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