Minecraft on Vita but not WiiU??

[dharh]

errorpwns said:

dharh said:

Ubisoft is Ubisoft. I huge coporation with developers coming out their arse. Mojang is Mojang. Who is going to develop the Wii U/3DS version of Minecraft? Certainly not Mojang themselves. Which studio are they going to outsource to? Who is going to foot the bill?

Microsoft essentially paid for Minecraft to be ported over to X360. Id bet there is a significant profit share between Mojang, 4J Studios, and Microsoft.

Betting this is exactly the same for Sony. Sony is probably footing the bill, might even be providing the studio to develop it. I might have to even strike my remark that the code used to develop the X360 version could be used even in parts because of copyright stuff. Either that or Mojang created a whole new team that has been working in the shadows this whole time (a very not-mojang thing to do btw) that is responsible for this new version.

As others have remarked in this thread Nintendo typically doesn't give two shits about western PC games getting ported over to their system. So no money hatting or development studio help from Nintendo to help Mojang bring a proper port over. Mojang simply does not have the resources to create a whole new version of Minecraft on top of trying to make use of a second screen. No matter how 'easy' it is to use said second screen (which again ill bet isn't as easy for a really small dev studio compared to Ubisoft).

Happy to confirm we're developing Minecraft PS3, PS4 & PS Vita Editions for Mojang, as well as Xbox 360 & Xbox One Editions!

— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) August 21, 2013

 

Actually 4J is not with Microsoft. Nice try though. Sony isn't supplying the dev studio. It is going to be 4J. I really wish people would not open their mouths without factual evidence. If you read anything I said I stated OTHER DEVELOPERS. Even smaller indie ones have stated the gamepad is easy to learn. If there is a Wii-U minecraft it will most likely be 4J. It isn't even like 4J hasn't done ports to the PS3 before. Of course you seem to like to live ignorant so I wouldn't put it past you to not know what you're talking about. 

First, I never said 4J was _with_ microsoft. Second, I said Sony _might_ be providing the studio. Now we know different, that it will be 4J that develops all the new versions of Minecraft. Which then also means, yay, they can re-use code they already created to move things along faster.

Thirdly, It really doesn't matter how easy it is to use the gamepad. Screw it, it could be as easy as UIGamePadObject blah = new UIGamePadObject(); etc. I still think its a dumb idea, but whatever. Doesn't mean that Nintendo cares about Minecraft and would help with the development costs. From what I can tell 4J has never done Wii U before. So that might also be a factor. But whatever you are right that it won't take extra time to develop the gamepad functionality, it will take more time to develop a whole new version of Minecraft!

Finally, I started out original post by saying _wait_ it will come eventually.

You can claim im ignorant all you want, but you make claims left and right that I didn't even say.

noname2200 was being obtuse and you are just being rude.

Most everything I said still stands. Mojang isn't developing the new versions. We know now that its 4J, which far as i can find has not done Wii U stuff. So who is going to do the Wii U development? If not 4J then it will be mostly all new code. Which takes time. Nintendo typically doesn't foot the bill on this stuff and doesn't seem to care about PC ported games anyway.

Even if that is not true and NOA approached Mojang about a Wii U/3DS version it will take time. The gamepad stuff I can easily concede, they apparently made it idiot proof. Still not a good idea, but whatever.