In all statements and advertisements around the acquisition of Minecraft by Microsoft for $ 2.5 billion, there was a question that has not been clarified: the potential future of Minecraft on own mobile platform firm Redmond. Now the company has given a definitive answer and confirmed that the game would indeed come to Windows Phone.
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At the end of a response tweeted the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer gave news that Minecraft was coming to the mobile platform from Microsoft . When asked if the game would also happen on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, Spencer simply answered "Yes."
Unfortunately, this is what we have today. Indeed, there are no details on how the porting Minecraft will look like, or when it will appear, or how much the game will cost when released on the platform. Versions of "pocket" of the title is already available for Android ( 5.49 euros ) and iOS ( 5.99 euros ). Xbox Version One has just been published , and Microsoft has promised to continue supporting the game on multiple platforms.
Some industry insiders have speculated that the growing interest in Windows Phone has been a trigger for Microsoft's decision to buy Minecraft . The approach of universal application that the engineers of the company introduced last April - where the same code can run on computers, smartphones and consoles - seems to make sense for a future version of Minecraft. The PC was the first format that the game appeared in 2009.
The agreement to have Microsoft Minecraft ended early last week to $ 2.5 billion. The game's creator, Markus Alexej Persson, better known by the name of Notch, in collaboration with Carl Manneh of Mojang and Jakob Porsér have all left the company to work on other projects. "Once the agreement is finalized I will leave and return to the Mojang development Ludum Dares and small experiments on the web " , said Persson in a farewell post on his website.
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At the end of a response tweeted the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer gave news that Minecraft was coming to the mobile platform from Microsoft . When asked if the game would also happen on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1, Spencer simply answered "Yes."
Some industry insiders have speculated that the growing interest in Windows Phone has been a trigger for Microsoft's decision to buy Minecraft . The approach of universal application that the engineers of the company introduced last April - where the same code can run on computers, smartphones and consoles - seems to make sense for a future version of Minecraft. The PC was the first format that the game appeared in 2009.
The agreement to have Microsoft Minecraft ended early last week to $ 2.5 billion. The game's creator, Markus Alexej Persson, better known by the name of Notch, in collaboration with Carl Manneh of Mojang and Jakob Porsér have all left the company to work on other projects. "Once the agreement is finalized I will leave and return to the Mojang development Ludum Dares and small experiments on the web " , said Persson in a farewell post on his website.