Looks like they are just adding local multiplayer and the ability to play with your "xbox live friends." So no cross-platform play but hey pay us for xbox live to be able to play with your friends?
It's been clarified that all this is, is The Pocket Edition of the game, being ported to consoles and PC. The down side is that the pocket edition does not have feature parity with the standard edition, and does not have modding support.
The upside is that it's a C++ program and runs considerably better than the java version. But, without reaching feature parity with the Java version, no one who seriously plays minecraft on the PC is going to want this.
Looks like they are just adding local multiplayer and the ability to play with your "xbox live friends." So no cross-platform play but hey pay us for xbox live to be able to play with your friends?
It's been clarified that all this is, is The Pocket Edition of the game, being ported to consoles and PC. The down side is that the pocket edition does not have feature parity with the standard edition, and does not have modding support.
The upside is that it's a C++ program and runs considerably better than the java version. But, without reaching feature parity with the Java version, no one who seriously plays minecraft on the PC is going to want this.