![]() This version of Minecraft also doesn’t take advantage of some of the Switch’s other features: Each player needs a full controller, so you can’t play the game in split-screen with individual joy-con controllers, nor is there any touch screen functionality when in handheld mode. There’s no built-in voice or text chat, or even any sort of emote system, so you’ll have to coordinate communication using an outside chat or voice service. Eric picked my game from under the “Join” tab in the main menu and voila! We were playing Minecraft together.Įric, on his avatar: “I mean, if they give me the option to play Bowser, I’m gonna play Bowser.” As far as I can see, there’s no way to invite someone to your game using the actual game interface - you simply see which of your friends are actively in a game and decide if you want to join them. I invited my colleague Eric Van Allen into my game, by which I mean I sent him a DM using our work chat and asked him to join. Online multiplayer is no-frills but functional, at least as far as I’ve tested. I was able to pop the Switch out of its dock and my two-player split-screen game kept going at what looked like a solid 60fps. (I remember writing this article about how much I liked concept waaaaaaay back when the idea of playing Minecraft on a game console was novel.) Switch split-screen works fine both docked and undocked, at least with two players. Minecraft has always been a lot of fun in multiplayer, and I love the idea of local Minecraft co-op in particular. There’s also a pretty cool pre-made Mario-themed world you can load up, which you can see in the screenshots up top.Ībove: Daisy and Rosalina prepare to settle this thing once and for all. Like the Wii U version, the Switch version comes with a Mario texture pack, as well as a bunch of Mario character skins. It comes with the standard survival mode as well as creative mode, which lets you freely build things without worrying about getting it blown up by a creeper, and minigames like battle mode, where players duke it out for bragging rights. It supports online play for up to eight players, and split-screen local play for up to four. This GIF compresses the image quality, but should give you a sense of the draw distance. The draw distance is noticeably longer when docked, but only if you put screenshots of the two versions side by side. It runs at 60fps docked and undocked, and both versions look crisp and play well. It feels particularly at home on the Switch, however, and I can actually see myself playing more of this version than I have since I first bought the game on PC all those years ago.įor the most part, this version of Minecraft isn’t particularly different from other console versions of the game. I like Minecraft on PC, on consoles, and even in virtual reality. I mean, of course I have! It’s Minecraft. Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition comes out this afternoon on the Nintendo eShop, with a physical version coming “at a later date.” Nintendo sent us codes a couple days ago, and I’ve played a few hours of the game.
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