Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition coming 11. May

[Ganoncrotch]

Leadified said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Hmmm this comment makes me think you might not have played the Vita port of Minecraft, it is actually amazing for the hardware that's running it.

From the wiki

"For the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, the PlayStation Vita and Wii U, the world size is limited to 864×864 blocks. Because the outer-most block is unusable on each side of the map, it is effectively 862×862 blocks that can be used. The worlds on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 can be up to 5120x5120"

The Vita port actually gives the same "map" size of world to the player in Survival and Creative modes as the X360/PS3, really was a great port of the title, I've said it before that I think Minecraft Vita is one of my favourite games of all times just for the work that went into the port bringing a really legitimate version of Minecraft to the portable system.

Hm, I'm not sure why I thought the Vita worlds were much smaller, oh well. Nothing against the Vita, I was just misinformed.

It's the 5inch screen no doubt :D Makes everything smaller haha.

But aye, I got lost digging pretty much everywhere with the Vita while playing Minecraft on it, It's one of the few games on psn that I have a platinum in (another game is the PS4 version of Minecraft lol) Just love the game, but the Vita really has a great portable version of it, I'm hoping the Switch port makes use of the hardware in that, really have fingers crossed that it wont just be a lazy port, if it's the 5120x5120 version it'll be day one for me.

 

On the Vita you can actually hop your saves back and forth from the PS3 version of the game to the portable too if you want to play on the big screen... or you can move them up to the PS4 but if you do the map size increase thing there you obviously enough can't send them back. Microsoft done good with bringing one of their flagship games to the Vita in its later life haha! Great first..... party... support...  *cough*