More evidence points towards Series X upgrade for Minecraft

Minecraft is by far the best selling game of all time, with the creativity-focused survival sandbox pushing more than 238 million copies. Despite this, the team at Mojang have yet to upgrade the game for current-generation consoles, with the title only available via backwards compatibility. After waiting years, it seems as though current-gen console owners will finally be getting a native port of the game, with multiple game rating boards hinting at this fact.

A couple weeks ago we reported that the German game ratings board (GSK) published a new listing for Minecraft on the Xbox Series consoles – suggesting that the game would soon get its long-awaited current-gen upgrade.

While this has yet to be officially confirmed, another ratings board – this time the ESRB – has also updated its website to include a Series X|S version of Minecraft, making its release seemingly inevitable.

Currently, the game runs at just 1080p on the Xbox Series X due to the fact that Minecraft was never enhanced for the now-last-gen Xbox One X. Additionally, the previously-announced ‘Super Duper Graphics Pack’ never came to fruition – nor did the advertised ray tracing mode.

With the current version of Minecraft for consoles being so far behind, this Series X|S upgrade can’t come soon enough. Hopefully it includes all of the aforementioned features. We will have to wait and see – though the outlook is positive.

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