Minecraft for PlayStation 3?

For those of you who don't know, Minecraft is the game all about blocks. Everything about Minecraft is blocks, but it's not just that. You can build immaculate landscapes, adventure for days on end, even play with your friends and come up with other wonderful things to do. Alternatively to those who are not appealed by Minecraft's blocky nature, there are "texture packs" which you can install into your game to change how certain objects appear, luckily there is an endless supply of texture packs to suit everyone's fancy. However if players are not satisfied with playing by themselves or with friends there are servers that contain different genres of the game, now players will still be playing Minecraft but the servers may have a combat system added into the game so that there will be some player versus player, or maybe there will be one where a player can own, run and manage their own town amongst other players.

Minecraft was started by Markus Persson in 2009 only to step down and give the title of lead developer to Jens Bergensten. Mojang, the Swedish company that developed Minecraft has sold over 9 million copies to PC/Mac's alone and then later expanded to the Xbox 360 in May of 2012, selling over 5 million copies. There is even a Minecraft Pocket Edition for iOS and Androids. However as of now Mojang has a console exclusvitiy deal with Microsoft, the creators of the Xbox, meaning that Minecraft is not allowed to expand to Sony or Nintendo consoles until that deal is up. Jens Bergensten said "When it runs out we’ll consider Minecraft for PlayStation, but Wii U is very unlikely"(Edge). Unfortunately Bergensten did not specify if the release would be for the PlayStation 3 or 4. It is also unknown how long the deal between Mojang and Microsoft will last as it has barely been one year now.

This is huge news even though it's still only a rumor. This means that Mojang will expand their game to an even wider amount of players, those who own a PlayStation but not a Xbox or PC/Mac. With the numbers of copies sold to the PC and Xbox versions, I could only imagine how many the PlayStation version could sell. I am personally excited to see how this turns out even though I already own Minecraft for the PC.









Below is one of the buildings I made and one of my favorite pictures I took.

Sources;

Long, Neil. "Minecraft on PlayStation being considered, Wii U version "very unlikely."' www.edge-online.com web. 6 March 2013. <http://www.edge-online.com/news/minecraft-on-playstation-being-considered-wii-u-version-very-unlikely/>.

Gaston, Martin. "Mojang will 'consider' Minecraft for PlayStation." www.gamespot.com web. 6 March 2013. <http://www.gamespot.com/news/mojang-will-consider-minecraft-for-playstation-6404897>.

"Minecraft." www.minecraft.com web. 6 March 2012. <http://minecraft.net/game>.