User:NegativeMP1/List of Minecraft editions
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The 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft, developed by Mojang Studios, has been ported to multiple video game platforms, including home consoles, handheld consoles, and smart devices.
Background
Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed and published by Mojang Studios. In the game, players explore a procedurally generated world made up of voxels (cubes). Players are able to harvest materials, craft tools and items, build structures, and fight hostile mobs.[1][2] Development of the game began in 2009 before officially being released in 2011. Since the game's original development phase starting in 2009, the game has been released on a variety of platforms, including several video game consoles.[3]
Officially supported versions
Java Edition
Bedrock Edition
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is a version of Minecraft available for Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. It is a modified version of the Windows 10 Edition, which itself derives from Pocket Edition. Both the mobile and Windows 10 ports were updated to Bedrock Edition in 2017 with the Better Together update, which was later ported to Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, leaving the individual console editions to be discontinued.[4][5] The seventh-generation consoles, New Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita and Wii U did not receive the update.[6]
Bedrock Edition is considered the main version of Minecraft, and is also the most accessible.[7][8][9] It supports crossplay across all consoles, and features the Marketplace, which allows users to purchase skins, maps, and other downloadable content;[7][8][9] in comparison to Java Edition, where most add-ons are freely available, ones on Bedrock are paid.[7] The version is officially referred to as simply Minecraft, with no "edition" sub-title; the Bedrock title comes from the version's specific engine that is referred to as the "Bedrock Engine".[9]
Discontinued versions
Pocket Edition
Pi Edition
Minecraft: Pi Edition is a port of Pocket Edition released for the Raspberry Pi computer series. Announced at Minecon 2012,[10] it was released for no charge on 11 February 2013 and included additional programming-related features, with multiple programming languages being supported, as well as access to the game's source code.[11] Mojang's then-chief word officer, Owen Hill, imagined the players "[using] the Pi to learn the fundamentals of programming on a minuscule budget."[12] In 2014, Pi Edition became included with installations of Raspbian OS as pre-installed software.[13]
In January 2016, Mojang's Tommaso Checchi stated on Reddit that Pi Edition had been discontinued after its original development team stopped supporting it and Pocket Edition became more complex following the release of update 0.9.0, making it significantly harder to update Pi Edition. According to Checchi, all Pi-related code was removed from the Pocket Edition source code in 2015 to reduce complexity.[14]
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition is a version of Minecraft released for the New Nintendo 3DS consoles. Unlike other console ports, 3DS Edition is based off the Pocket Edition of the game. It supports certain 3DS features, such as the use of the second screen for inventory access and the C-stick for camera movement, but lacks the console's signature autostereoscopic 3D. Like the other console versions, the world size is limited with a world size of 2016x2016 blocks. The original 3DS is not supported.[15][16] It received its final update in 2019.[17]
Legacy Console Editions
"Legacy Console Editions" is a retroactive label given to the versions of Minecraft that were published on video game consoles prior to the release of Bedrock Edition in 2017.[18]