Minecraft is getting a native PS5 version, which players can test right now

Minecraft goes native on the PlayStation 5. Microsoft-owned Mojang announced on Thursday that PS5 house owners will quickly be getting a model to name their very own, as a substitute of taking part in the PS4 model by the console’s backward compatibility with that platform.

What does this imply? Usually talking, native variations carry out higher than backward-compatible or emulated variations as a result of they’re made for the {hardware} itself. “By growing a local model of Minecraft for PS5, we’ll have the ability to make the sport run extra successfully on the PS5’s {hardware},” Mojang stated within the submit asserting the brand new model.

Larger image it means Mojang — once more, a Microsoft-owned firm — is genuinely platform agnostic on the subject of serving and sustaining the 13-year-old commonplace bearer of sandbox survival-types. Wherever players wish to play Minecraft, they’ll put it there in the absolute best form.

For now, it is a “preview” model of Minecraft. Which means PS5 house owners of the (once more, PS4) recreation can discover the construct by navigating to the settings menu after which selecting “preview.” Mojang famous that the preview contains the new Tricky Trials update. They’re previewing the PS5-native Minecraft earlier than releasing it as a result of they wish to get suggestions, notably bug stories and different issues, from real-life customers taking part in the sport as they usually do.

As a result of it’s a preview model, multiplayer is proscribed to gamers on the identical platform, on this case PS4 and PS5. The preview model of Minecraft for PlayStation 5 won’t have entry to the Minecraft Retailer, both. This FAQ on the official Minecraft web page will reply different questions.