Minecraft's primary demographics are not the same as neogaf's demographics. It will be huge saleswise but there won't necessarily be a huge footprint on gaf about it.
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So minecraft on Switch is gonna be huge right?
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The gamey part of the game is incredibly light. There is gubbins about the Nether and the End that I've just not got into.
Essentially, if you like the reward of seeing your craft start to take shape over time, you'll get a kick.
I mean, I started off building a wood shack. Then a little barn next to it. An underground vault. A black smiths. My mine is becoming more and more sprawling, especially as I start to chip away at walls to make it less of a warren to get around and more of a huge space.
I've started to make a road with lights that eventually go up a hill where there is a castle at the top of it.
As I say, it's all about your own drive. My next plans were to make a winding descent to an underground city. To continue fleshing out my overworld with a walled town.
Don't even bother with exploring and whatnot. Very good absent minded game for public transport while listening to music. I don't even have monsters turned on. I just like tunnelling away and creating, but not in the Creative Mode "you can fly and here are all the materials" fashion.
Discokuningas
Member
Can you play split screen online?
I've seen so much stuff about MC over the years, I can't even remember what's in mods and what's in vanilla any more.
In vanilla, are there any facilities for setting up automatic mining / refining / production chains or anything of the sort? That would be a big part of the appeal to me...not just creating structures, but things that actually do stuff.
In vanilla, are there any facilities for setting up automatic mining / refining / production chains or anything of the sort? That would be a big part of the appeal to me...not just creating structures, but things that actually do stuff.
Building, survival, exploration, online shared worlds building and exploring with others
I go through phases of building/exploring. Love spelunking in caves
friskykillface
Banned
$40 would be ideal for the switch version
$60 would be insane tbh
I'm in when it's $40
I think it'll be big
$60 would be insane tbh
I'm in when it's $40
I think it'll be big
The Artisan
Member
i meant in terms of sales. but yeah switch can definitely get those games too
It is on consoles, but this comes with the Super Mario expansion that adds a lot to the game.
I've suspected that they are trying to quietly raise the price of the game at least at retail, as the standard version of Minecraft on Xbox One comes with several skin packs to justify its own price hike. Nothing for PS4 yet, but I imagine that's only a matter of time.
Buggy Loop
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Okami Haundo
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Isn't it launching digitally first at $30? I know that's the price in the U.S. at least. Either way, I agree that this will be absolutely huge. Taking the same world with you literally anywhere will be a big selling point. The Mario DLC doesn't hurt either, but it'll mainly be about switching between on and off TV play.
dl77
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Shame games don't work like that in general. Imagine if when you first buy them they're £20/$20 but as they're patched, fixed and updates etc become available they then start to go up in price so those who were there day one and have helped (ish) to improve the title get the game at the best price.
Jaguar Victory
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7 year old gets coding projects - my education feels inferior
Axispowers
Member
Has there been any talks about it having servers ? Or is it host based
Astral Dog
Member
I don't even know what Minecraft is beyond a few screenshoots 😳
Astral Dog
Member
Why the hell would you want coding at 7 be happy you should be playing with clay
anothertech
Member
Minecraft 2
Not much, since that's been the release strategy of every console release for Minecraft. Digitally or physically, it's a monster.
Really? Was this shown on that developer livestream? I thought the only difference between docked/undocked was going to be the resolution.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I'd love it if I could play it turning off hunger.
Fuck hunger mechanics
Fuck hunger mechanics
Why?
JoshuaJSlone
Member
They didn't follow up the PS3/V/4 versions with anything else.
Depends how crazy you want to get with it, really. On PC the world I spent the most time in (probably a hundred+ hours over the course of a month?) that wouldn't have caused any problems, but I was mostly content gathering and building up things around the starting area rather than searching far and wide for specific biomes.
Blocks are supposed to represent a meter, so in volume that's about 3x3x0.25 totally modifiable kilometers.
I have to think at some point they'd want to make a few more bucks off the tens of millions of PC/mobile buyers rather than giving them free upgrades forever. How they do that successfully, search me.dl77 said:
I started toying with BASIC about that age.
10 INPUT A$
20 PRINT A$; " is dumb."
Digital clay, man.
This is a more general comment than just Minecraft, but it's surprised me that in the major projects we see appearing on both Wii U and Switch, it's Nintendo's that come out much better. Coming from people who have been working on the IBM/ATI tech of GameCube and its successors for 15 years I might've expected some growing pains porting things to much more standard NVIDIA hardware, but instead their projects like Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 seem to turn out better on Switch than games like LEGO City Undercover and Minecraft from third parties who don't have such an excuse. But yeah, undocked having significantly lower draw distance than even the X360 version is pretty lame.
Rodney McKay
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Age 7 is when you're doing basics like reading, righting, math, etc, not just doing finger painting and having naps.
Coding that young would have been incredibly useful. It can also be fun too, if the assignments are done well. I always loved doing computer lab when it was just doing typing games and games where I learned a bit about electricity while playing it.
I didn't do any coding until college (didn't even know if my high school offered it) and at that point I was really behind a large portion of the class.
WordAssassin
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If my girlfriend and I both have our own Switch systems and we each have a copy of Minecraft, do we still have to deal with split screen when we play together or do we each get a full screen? Has that been answered anywhere? (Sorry if it has, all I know for sure is 2 people can play with 1 Switch in split screen)
Yes. I will find a source and edit this with it.
Robin64
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It's host based at launch, but at E3 2016 they talked about getting Minecraft Realms to consoles "next year", which are dedicated paid servers.
Yeah only Xbox one has been announced officially... I could see it coming to switch but doubt on ps4... It runs on live
frankie_baby
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The Wii U version was released prior to us becoming glorious brexitland with worthless money, they wont be that generous with the exchange rates
JoshuaJSlone
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Non-answer, but the Nintendo UK Minecraft Switch page doesn't say.
Fast Forward
Member
Probably.
Hell, it will probably be one of the biggest 3rd party hits on the Switch when it is all said and done.
Hell, it will probably be one of the biggest 3rd party hits on the Switch when it is all said and done.
Some information, as well as the source Twitch link, can be found here. I should clarify that I used view distance interchangeably with rendering distance.
u/amiibolite said:
So, while we get a much larger world than the Wii U version, it renders at a much lower distance, which IMO is unfortunate if you plan on playing portable (undocked). Also, 720p at both portable and docked is unfortunate.
MatrixMan.EXE
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It's Minecraft, it'll do well regardless of what platform it gets put on. I don't think it's going to be any bigger than it is on the other platforms save for Wii U and Mobile though, probably Vita too.
theonerayman
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I'm not even gonna front, Minecraft is one of the reasons I bought a switch. It's the perfect on the go game. Got 2 minutes? Lay a few blocks. Got an hour? Build a big ass house. It's pretty damned phenomenal.
OrbitalBeard
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Isn't Minecraft like, insanely huge on mobile?
Agreed, it's going to sell well regardless. Minecraft is a huge seller on everything.
Vital Tundra
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Wait, it runs at 720p? How is it not running 1080p?
JoshuaJSlone
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http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Pocket_Edition
Whereas most games use the docked/undocked GPU difference towards higher resolution, this game instead puts it towards more draw distance. Why Switch-class hardware can only do ~12 chunk draw distance at 720p is still pretty bad, though. I would've guessed that for the undocked version.
MAX PAYMENT
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I think this will be the first time I ever try the game.
DizzyCaffeine
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Pretty much. Kids are already totally fine with the mobile versions. A Switch version will sell well, but it's not really bringing anything new for them.