E3: Minecraft Coming to Xbox 360 With Kinect

[SilentP]

I am definitely happy to hear this Can't get Minecraft to work on my laptop, and it'll be a fair while till I can get a new one (though there's no word in the article about when Minecraft will hit the Xbox 360), so I'll be happy for this to come along.

 

[Doclector]

Sounds good, but I'm gonna be pissed if you have to use kinect, because I don't have a stack of money or a room the size of a small warehouse.

 

[samsonguy920]

Notch reveals another facet of his business craftiness. Shame 360er's will have to wait until it is actually done to play it.

I await the home video of the following:
"I'm a dwarf and I'm digging a hole...diggy diggy hole...CREEPER!" *runs into wall*

 

[Juan Regular]

I´m a console gamer for the most part, but in Minecrafts case I´ll stick to mouse and keyboard. Building stuff takes ages with a controller. And Kinect... I´m lazy.

 

[samsonguy920]

How could the 360 run minecraft? Minecraft uses a lot more ram than the console has.

Same way with every other game made for PC and ported to consoles. Cutting corners.

[sub]PC Games rule[/sub]

 

[Iamaglassoftea]

No thanks, I already bought it once. Seeing as how I doubt porting it to Xbox will expand it's functionality beyond the inability to play online without paying for it, I'll stick to the PC.
Seriously, though. You could run Minecraft on a calculator, if you wanted, aside from vastly limiting yourself and others enjoyment of the game why would you play it on anything else?

 

[Citizen Snips]

Notch said that if you registered or bought the game during Alpha, Notch said you would get any free DLC and updates for the game for life.

Do any of you think this may crossover to the Xbox?

....oh God please I hope so.

 

[jack583]

finally!!
my distrust of credit cards will no longer prevent me from playing minecraft!!

How will Microsoft handle MC updates then?

Still no free updates so people have to pay for MC updates?

hopefully they do normal updates for free (like system updates), but you have to pay some of the bigger updates

 

[qeinar]

using kinect for this would probably be tiring as shit, imaging having to chop down a forest to build a mansion or something like that.

 

[qeinar]

Notch said that if you registered or bought the game during Alpha, Notch said you would get any free DLC and updates for the game for life.

Do any of you think this may crossover to the Xbox?

....oh God please I hope so.

doubt it. Although it would have been nice.

 

[Apollo45]

Interesting. Should be fun, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft ends up charging more for the game or some such... We'll see how it goes before I actually buy it - the PC version will probably be better anyway.

 

[Mantonio]

Huh. Well, I'm not worried.

Minecraft will always inherently be superior on PC, and (because it's Micro$oft) the 360 will have NO FREE UPDATES!

Why not? Everytime I play a game after a gap of around 6 months or mroe it asks me if I would like to download an update for the game (for free) to allow me to play it on XBL. In new releases it can be as common as one update per week, or more.

I support this - Escapecraft on XBOX!

Why not? Because Microsoft forbid developers who use their console to release more than one free update or piece of DLC.

That's why TF2 on 360 is so behind, for example.

 

[Fiad]

Kind of curious if I will have to pay for it since I got it back in alpha, when it said all future expansions and such are free for alpha buyers. Doubt I will get it for free, but would be awesome.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Should be fine on the updates, apparently the free ones are limited in size (and a bit of green can persuade MS to up that limit).

But Minecraft always has small updates so it shouldn't be an issue, probably wont get any mods but when did console players care about that.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I'll keep playing on my PC.

Though i dont see this staying "exclusive" for long. Sony will get it relatively soon.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I know I'm going to get shit for saying this, but I am really pissed off by this. Not becuase I'm some irrational idiot who thinks that the second a game is on multiple platforms it is ruined. But let's look at the facts; Minecraft an indie game developed by a team of about 6 people that still has a ton of features that need to be implemented before the game is officially released, which is November 11th. Now given that they can't even release a patch on the PC without it fucking up things beyond belief, how the hell are they going to properly develop a game on multiple platforms and still meet that November 11th deadline without things being horribly broken and gimped? Unless Notch breaks his bizarre taboo about hiring more than a handful of people I don't see that happening.

Granted I get why he's doing it since he doesn't want to lose the 360 market, but this doesn't bode well for the game's development.

EDIT: Apparently he got an entirely new team working on the 360 version so this won't be nearly as big of an issue as I initially thought. Did not expect that but it's a damn good thing.

 

[Innegativeion]

Now if I happened to get the kinect as a birthday present or something, I can definitely see myself buying and using this often. Seems like it would be loads of fun.

Don't think it's enough to get me to buy kinect on its own though...

 

[Tharwen]

Minecraft is written in Java, which isn't supported on the Xbox as far as I know. Presumably that means that whoever is making it for XBLA will have to either remake each update in C# or not update it at all.

That will cause one hell of a lot of issues.

 

[viranimus]

Thats great.. Now can we get things like Furniture, NPCs, and all the other things the game needs before its considered finished instead of trying to port it to every friggen platform?

 

[octafish]

No thanks, I already bought it once. Seeing as how I doubt porting it to Xbox will expand it's functionality beyond the inability to play online without paying for it, I'll stick to the PC.
Seriously, though. You could run Minecraft on a calculator, if you wanted, aside from vastly limiting yourself and others enjoyment of the game why would you play it on anything else?

As long as it isn't a netbook. They just don't have the open GL support or indeed the processing power to run minecraft. I have no idea how they are getting it to run on an Ipad or a damn phone.

Will there be multiplayer? Minecraft isn't exactly competitive, though griefing can be, perhaps there could be cross platform SMP? You'd have to setup your own server with a whitelist but it seems feasible.