MS wants to work with Sony to bring the "Better Together" Minecraft update to PS4

[DonFerrari]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Xen said:

I am wondering as to why they haven't, really - it's something like making Lego exclusive to a certain kind of glove... it could be huge for their ecosystem focus!

DonFerrari said:

Could... but since MS decided not to they probably saw that the net gain on Minecraft 2 being X1 exclusive wouldn't be a big enough system seller to recover 100M SW loss.

Most probably the main reason is that Notch sold Mojang to MS after having stricken a deal with Sony for Minecraft ports to its platforms, so it wasn't possible anymore to make Minecraft totally exclusive, as such deals are binding even if one of the companies changes owner. You can tell quite a strong deal exists from the fact that the publisher of Minecraft on Sony platforms is  neither Mojang nor Microsoft, but Sony itself.

And that deal have all future versions of the game including Minecraft 2? I guess not.

But you said making it only on X1, so I answered that MS would lose much more selling Minecraft only on X1 than they would gain from the "system seller" status... even removing only PS4 version of the table, 17M sales less would hardly be recovered by what the x1 sales of people that really want to play Minecraft on a console that would buy a 300 USD console because of it.

Cloudman said:

twintail said:

nah, the majority of gamers would need to care and alas, where are they?

And please, Sony has has cross platform play between their own devices and PC since the PS3 days, and still continue to do so.

And lets not forget it wasnt too long ago when MS had a no crossplay policy in effect too. Just because they are falling behind they are pushing for it as it makes the PS4 less lucrative to buy if you dont need one for multiplay games (of which MS marketing pull for zero MP focussed titles).  Lets not act like MS is doing this solely for gamers. They are also doing it for their own financial and competetive benefit. 

Well, I'm sure they are there. I have heard some people were upset about this from videos talking about the subject and the opinion on this has been negative overall. When I heard about cross play, I thought it was a cool idea and there is a good place for cross play.

So, does it make it fine that Sony allows it for PC, but not for other devices? I don't think it excuses the current action they are taking.

And honestly, I don't think Sony allowing cross play would really affect their sales at all. It would be trivial at most. There are many reasons to buy a PS4 besides playing MC online with your PS4 buddies, and to hold back for a reason like this just seems really dumb. And I don't really see how this would be help MS anyways.

You said MAJORITY and you have nothing to sustain that so you are moving the goal post.