Sony held back PS5 devkits for Microsoft and Minecraft.
Minecraft still doesn’t have an optimized version for PS5, and it appears that a Sony decision to hold back sending Microsoft PS5 devkits ahead of launch is why.
“Sony was reluctant to ship us PlayStation dev kits… it put us behind on our development for Minecraft on PS5,” says Spencer. The FTC says Microsoft fought back by still not providing an optimized version of Minecraft on PS5 nearly three years later.
“There is a version of Minecraft that runs on PS5,” says Spencer, but this isn’t an optimized version it’s simply the PS4 version of the game. There isn’t an Xbox Series S / X optimized version of Minecraft, either.
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