Minecraft Latest News: Microsoft's Next Move, a Minecraft 2? Phil Spencer says, "Meet the Needs of the Minecraft Community First"
We already know that Microsoft acquired the $2.5 billion Mojang and its Minecraft in September. Now, the company is thinking about Minecraft 2. Yet, before they go about it, the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is saying that Microsoft should consider the plan thoroughly, as Microsoft must consider the Minecraft community and its gamers before planning a new project, such as the Minecraft 2.
When asked about Minecraft 2, Spencer told IGN:
"I don't know if Minecraft 2, if that's the thing that makes the most sense. The community around Minecraft is as strong as any community out there. We need to meet the needs and the desires of what the community has before we get permission to go off and do something else. It doesn't mean that everything we're going to do is going to map to 100 percent of their acceptance, because I don't know if there is any topic where 100 percent of people agree. But we look at Job 1 is to go out and meet the needs of the Minecraft community first, and then we can think about ways that we can actually help grow it. That's our sole focus".
In other news, Windows Phone users have been waiting for their version of the Minecraft: Pocket Edition for a while now. Apparently, the game's developer, Jens Bergensten, tweeted that the Windows Phone port for the game "runs already", confirming that the game "is coming to the Windows Phone", but that "there's still much to do before any release".
The developers clarified that they were already working on the game for the Windows Phone version even before Microsoft bought the Minecraft franchise.
