Minecraft is coming to PlayStation VR as a free improve later this month. Minecraft is getting a free improve making the sport playable in PlayStation VR later this month, developer Mojang Studios introduced in a blog post
Fans have been asking for PSVR Minecraft for a while now. Although the ever-popular game is already available to play on various virtual reality platforms (it launched on the Oculus Rift back in 2016, for example), Sony’s VR hardware has until now been overlooked. Mojang says the upgrade will come as a free download patch for all players some time later this month.
Everybody who has Minecraft on PlayStation 4 will get that patch robotically,” says the studio. “Obtain that patch and also you’ll get entry to the brand new Minecraft VR performance. After all, you’ll want a PS VR setup to be able to use it.”
The corporate says that the PS VR model of Minecraft shall be “100% the identical Minecraft recreation that you may play each day, each week, each month, yearly…on PlayStation 4. Nothing eliminated. 100% healthful & pure full-fat Minecraft.”
There are some small tweaks, however these shall be primarily to the interface and set-up for VR. Gamers will be capable of use the PS4 controller to maneuver about and take motion, whereas trying round them utilizing the PS VR headset. Mojang says the sport could have two separate modes, Immersive and Residing Room, however didn’t go into element about what these will entail.
Minecraft continues to be a runaway success, regardless of being greater than a decade previous. Earlier this yr, Microsoft, which acquired Mojang again in 2014, mentioned gross sales of the sport now topped 200 million throughout numerous platforms, with a spike of utilization occurring in the course of the onset of the pandemic.