Minecraft Has Been Rated For Xbox Series X|S (Again)

I mean, it’s kind of ridiculous that Microsoft’s most popular game (by a country mile) doesn't have a next gen version with the raytracing features of its PC brother.

It’s weirdly taken a long time to get here (and would have helped during Xbox’s infamous year-and-half dry spell) but surely this is it.

@EvenStephen7 I would be shocked if ray tracing was included with whatever this is.

Mojang have been testing shader support on the bedrock edition ( which is what Xbox uses) in the most recent beta preview.

What they are testing isn't RT though it's something called physical based rendering. It shares some similarities to RT and looks much better than no shaders but it's not RT.

If this is a current gen Minecraft relaunch on Xbox I expect it will be with PBR shaders not RT.

@Kaloudz yeah you are still going to be punching trees, mining blocks & being creative.

However, it makes a huge difference visually I mean just look up shaders on YouTube. And for me it's not just visual thing I think it will help some folks be creative too.

I am not a good builder I would probably describe myself as enthusiastic and will try to build anything even if it's not great when I get done.

The extra visual flair though will make me think about where I place things like windows or skylights a little more. Do I want to catch the sunrise or sunset glinting off my shiny floors. Should I build near water so that I can get my builds reflection on said water for some extra visual flair.

It's not going to change game play in a fundamental sense but it might be a creative catalyst for some folks. Even if not having things look nicer generally isn't a bad thing (as long as it doesn't affect game performance and from my time testing the beta it didn't.)

Sorry for long reply I am a little excited for this .... lol imagine being excited for Minecraft again 😂

Of all the Xbox studios I think Mojang is the least creative and probably the laziest and Xbox doesn't say anything because they print money with least amount of effort. An upgrade should have been made possible years ago as they haven't made anything in recent years. I think it's time Xbox put some pressure on them just like they did with 343.

@Tonmoy let's see Minecraft Earth (discontinued), Minecraft Dungeons, Minecraft Legends and continually update Minecraft across pretty much every platform in existence.

Yeah they have done nothing ..... 🤔. Sure non of the spin offs are setting the gaming world on fire but saying they have done nothing is simply not true.

Don't get me wrong I wish Mojang would focus more on Xbox series consoles too but they are not the only thing they develop for.

@BBB You got me wrong Dungeons and Legends are not done by Mojang rather outsourced. They do update nothing but Minecraft and all it's ports. But sadly the studio has become too complacent. Even Xbox knows it. But they know people are gonna play Minecraft even if they don't add any mob or biome in a year or so. That doesn't mean there isn't a growing unrest in the community. Many people are getting tired of it just like Bungie and their malpractices with D2. It's a sad story of this industry.

My son loves Minecraft so if they make any visual improvements (see lighting) he'll be super chuffed 😀.

Edit: Hopefully any improvements will cover all platforms, over at Eurogamer folks are already conflating this with the ongoing ABK takeover 🤣🤦‍♂️.

@Sol4ris Mojang are testing the PBR shaders currently on pc, xbox and some android devices.

They said in their blog that they hope to bring them to playstation & iOS in the future.

They are doing the testing on Minecraft Preview which just isn't available on PlayStation for Sony reasons I believe.