Minecraft UPDATE - Nintendo Switch players will NEED Xbox Live login
MINECRAFT Minecraft players on the Nintendo Switch will need an Xbox Live login, Microsoft confirmed
Switch owners will soon be able to play with Minecraft fans on the Xbox One and PC, but to do so will have to log into Xbox Live to play online. It is part of the brand new push to unify players across all consoles, but PS4 and PS4 Pro players will not be part of the cross-platform play. The Minecraft news was revealed by Phil Spencer, the Head of Xbox, during an interview with Giant Bomb. When talking about cross-platform play and how players will login, Spencer said: "It's an Xbox Live account; that's our gaming social network.
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"We use Xbox Live as the way to make sure we know who our players are, controls around parental controls and other things that we put into our platform are there. "And as you're buying things in Minecraft, you want to make sure you have them available on other platforms, so we have to know who you are. "If you have a realm that you've created on the PC and you want to get to it on the Switch, we have to have an identity system and we just use Xbox Live."
Giant Bomb's Jeff Gerstmann then asked if Nintendo Switch players would then face the bizarre scenario of earning Xbox Achievements.
He said: "I don't know yet. I'm guessing no. And this is a collaborative relationship between Nintendo and I; they don't have Achievements on their platform. “If they want us to, I would love to be able to do it... The relationship with Nintendo is incredibly strong. We obviously did the Mario mash-up pack into Minecraft; that doesn't happen that often." The Minecraft news comes after Sony bigwig Jim Ryan defended the decision for PS4, PS4 Pro and PS Vita not being part of the cross-play. Speaking to Eurogamer, he said: "We've got to be mindful of our responsibility to our install base. Minecraft - the demographic playing that, you know as well as I do, it's all ages but it's also very young. "We have a contract with the people who go online with us, that we look after them and they are within the PlayStation curated universe. "Exposing what in many cases are children to external influences we have no ability to manage or look after, it's something we have to think about very carefully."
The Minecraft Better Together update was revealed at E3 2017, which will feature a function to search for servers you can join straight away. The Super Duper Graphics Pack was also announced, which gives 4K HDR graphics for players on the Xbox One X and high-end PCs. On the official Minecraft website, the incoming Better Together update was outlined.
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