Sounds like a good way to get mainstream attention on a Direct.
The PEGI ratings board has listed Minecraft for Wii U, and it could release as soon as tomorrow.
The European game rating body has given the game a 7+ rating citing "non realistic violence toward fantasy characters" among other things, roughly equivalent to the E10+ in North America. The release date on the rating is 12 November, meaning it would likely be announced in tomorrow's Nintendo Direct if it was to come out as there is no mention of the game in this week's download PR.
PEGI has rated games that have not actually released, such as rating PlayStation Vita versions of Tales from the Borderlands where no version exists, but we will find out either way tomorrow more than likely.
*Pouring water on the fire*
Are we sure this is not for the TT "Story Mode" edition?
*Pouring water on the fire*
Are we sure this is not for the TT "Story Mode" edition?
All versions of Story Mode have Telltale as the publisher and a 12 rating. This is explicitly published by Microsoft and has a 7 rating.
Congratulations for Nintendo being a little bit closer to meeting bare minimum expectations. Everyone has Minecraft. You're SUPPOSED to have it. The fact that it has taken this long is a huge embarrassing ****-up on Nintendo's part.
Hell if I could sum up the problem with Nintendo consoles with one point it would be the very common situation for major third party games coming to every platform EXCEPT Nintendo's. That's like a reverse killer app. It doesn't draw an audience to any specific competitor but just draws people away from you. If I was in charge of Nintendo I would have a list on a bulletin board of every game released for the PC/PS4/XB1 but not the Wii U with "FIX THIS" as the title. The goal for the NX would be to get the annual amount of such titles down to zero.
Congratulations for Nintendo being a little bit closer to meeting bare minimum expectations. Everyone has Minecraft. You're SUPPOSED to have it. The fact that it has taken this long is a huge embarrassing ****-up on Nintendo's part.
Hell if I could sum up the problem with Nintendo consoles with one point it would be the very common situation for major third party games coming to every platform EXCEPT Nintendo's. That's like a reverse killer app. It doesn't draw an audience to any specific competitor but just draws people away from you. If I was in charge of Nintendo I would have a list on a bulletin board of every game released for the PC/PS4/XB1 but not the Wii U with "FIX THIS" as the title. The goal for the NX would be to get the annual amount of such titles down to zero.
Yes, it should've happened a long time ago. So why exactly wasn't it on a Nintendo system?
I mean, as soon as MS took over for Mojang, the development that was required happened and the game gets announced? That doesn't sound really odd to everyone else?
This is one of those rare cases that make me wonder if Nintendo is at fault, of if a particular developer actively didn't want the game on a Nintendo platform. Surely Nintendo realized they were missing out on something huge here.
If one or two people don't like you, they might just be jerks. If everyone doesn't like you, you're the jerk.
If one or two people don't like you, they might just be jerks. If everyone doesn't like you, you're the jerk. "Developer X doesn't like Nintendo" has been used so many times as an excuse for a lack of support that if it is actually true then Nintendo must be at fault. You don't piss off so many other companies by just minding your own business. If it took Microsoft to get it to work then I'm assuming Nintendo put up some sort of roadblocks that Mojang didn't want to work around.
Remember about a year ago Nintendo leaders hinted at something involving Minecraft? Maybe they got permission/rights straightened out, but had to rewrite the code from scratch themselves to work on a Nintendo system. That would explain the lengthy development time. It would also give hopes that this is much more than a basic port.
