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> What marginal platform are you talking about? The Xperia Play. > Minecraft Pocket Edition is now up for grabs -- provided you've got $6.99 to spare, and you
by shinratdr 15y ago
> What marginal platform are you talking about?
The Xperia Play.
> Minecraft Pocket Edition is now up for grabs -- provided you've got $6.99 to spare, and you're one of the folks who picked up Sony's Xperia Play.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/238162/minecraft_pocket_edition_hits_android_app_store_your_thumbs_cower_in_fear.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/238162/minecraft_pocket_editi... (This is so clunky, I wish we just had Markdown).
Not only has he limited himself to Android (you notice no other mobile platforms in your list there) he's chosen to take an exclusivity deal from Sony so that it's artificially limited to only the Xperia Play for at least a month or two.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoCall me crazy, but I don't think 2 months of exclusivity on a game that's still in development is not a huge deal.
- rjd 15y agoAndroid is Java based ... Minecraft is java based ... seems only logical Android is first. I don't really see it going to any other OS myself... maybe the Win7 phone when the xbox version is completed. I bet that payment from Sony was to convert it, I doubt they had plans to ship to xperia otherwise. If it sells as well as the PSP it will hardly be marginal. And one to two month is hardly exclusive, its just a marketing gamble by Sony.
- shinratdr 15y ago> And one to two month is hardly exclusive It's still a timed exclusive.