Block-building game Minecraft will be available on PlayStation 3 Tuesday computerandvideogames.com reported Monday. Europe will have it Wednesday.
"Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition and Minecraft: PS Vita Edition are also being developed, but we don't have release dates yet," Owen Hill of the game's manufacturer Mojang said in a statement on PlayStation's blog. Expect them sometime next year. Minecraft: PS3 Edition comes with everything present in other console versions. They're pretty much identical to play, and will be developed in tandem from now on."
The game is expected to also arrive on Sony's hand-held PlayStation Vita, and the newly-released PlayStation 4 next year Gaming Blend reported.
Minecraft has seen 10 million copies sold from Xbox 360 users according to Markus Pearsson, the man behind the game via his Twitter.
"We're hard at work getting Minecraft: PS3 Edition ready for testing just now," 4J Studios, game developer of Minecraft said on their Twitter account. "The other platforms & TU14 will be later."
The Xbox 360 has a multi-player and tutorials to help people get acquainted with the game console, and provide answers to questions. Users can also enable players to operate the device just by talking. Individuals can also connect the console to their satellite television equipment in order to watch TV, and flip back and forth between gaming, and viewing shows.
The $399 PlayStation 4 game console has eight x86 CPU-codes titled Jaguar, and is manufactured from Advanced Micro Devices according to Network World. It also comes equipped with upgraded graphics coprocessors capable of handling 1.84 teraflops of performance.
The machine also has 500 gigabyte hard drive that can play blu-ray DVDs. There are also eight gigabytes of GDDR5 memory or quick network speed random access memory found in graphics cards. Game makers put 176 gigabytes of network speed a second on the machine since they wanted the computer to run faster.
