
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN covering video game and entertainment news. For everything that's happened, check out our recap of the trial so far. Earlier in today's proceedings, we learned Starfield almost skipped Xbox entirely ahead of Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda. The Microsoft FTC trial has already revealed a lot about the inner workings of the video game industry we rarely get to hear about otherwise. Spencer responded by saying Xbox looked at ways to "maximize the success of Minecraft".Įlsewhere, Minecraft Dungeons was also discussed, and we learned the game was at one point considered as a potential PC-only title. However, the FTC argued Microsoft has had three years since the PS5 launched to create a native version of Minecraft for the platform. Industry experts are also pointing out the Xbox Series X|S doesn't appear to have its own optimized version of Minecraft, putting the two platforms on even ground. Minecraft is playable on PS5 through the PlayStation 4 version, so it's not as if PlayStation players have been left out of the Minecraft ecosystem this generation. "Sony was reluctant to send us development kits for the PlayStation 5 at the same time they were sending them to other developers,
