Secretive Sony to blame for blocking Minecraft on PS5, says Xbox
Where is Minecraft PS5?
Xbox boss Phil Spencer, speaking during the FTC's case against the Activision Blizzard deal, has confirmed there will be no native PS5 version of Minecraft soon supposedly because Sony didn't provide development kits. IGN picked up the comments from the case, with Spencer reasoning: “Sony was reluctant to send us development kits for the PlayStation 5 at the same time they were sending them to other developers, which put us at a disadvantage relative to other developers.“I think Sony could have sent the development kits to Microsoft just as easily as they sent them to any other publisher,” Spencer concluded. Though Spencer says this, indicating that the blame lies with Sony, the FTC refuted his claims by stating Microsoft's Mojang team has had three years to make a next-gen version. Indeed, there also isn't a native Xbox Series X|S version, so on both systems, you have to play the last-gen version of the game.
Reportedly, Spencer returned fire by stating the last three years had been used to expand the Minecraft IP with games like the Diablo-like Minecraft Dungeons — a game which, interestingly, was originally planned as a PC-only release before it came to PS4 and Xbox One as well. Since then, Microsoft has also released the action-heavy Minecraft Dungeons.
That all being said, you have to assume this is corporate shenanigans from both parties. For games like MLB The Show 21, a multiplatform game from PlayStation Studios in development during the generation switch, Microsoft gave Sony team an Xbox dev kit. It would have hardly been able to say, "Have at it!" There are probably contacts in place to prevent detail sharing between the development team and Sony's hardware teams. It looks like a native PS5 version was never on the cards and even if it was, there would probably be legal red tape around the dev kit so Sony wouldn't have to be worried.
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