Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
Cross-Play Verification
This page is our investigation of cross-play feature in game called Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. We also want to mention that - we always put manual efforts to find the precise, valid, and what is more important official information about different game features without using AI.
How we group cross-play?
Games can have different cross-play combinations, for example the game can have cross-play between PC, Playstation 5, Xbox X|S, but not between old generations like: Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC. To avoid any misinterpretations, we group them into so called "cross-play variations".
Any store inside the cross-play variation have a cross-play only with a store in the SAME variation. We also want to notice, that we put into variation not platform, but store + platform. That is required because some games, for example, can have cross-play between a Playstation 5 and Steam, but not Playstation 5 and Epic Games.
Variation no. 1:
Before we begin, we need to clarify that we are referring only to Minecraft Bedrock Edition, not the original Minecraft, which was written in Java. The Java version of Minecraft does not exist on consoles and therefore does not support cross-play.
While investigating, we had confusion because of different Minecraft game pages in the Xbox Store, and this is the first thing we want to clarify:
- Minecraft for Windows - the version of Minecraft with cross-play support, but available only through Xbox Game Pass;
- Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition for PC - contains 2 versions of Minecraft: the original Java, which does not support cross-play, and the new Bedrock that supports cross-play;
- Minecraft - the console-only version;
Currently, Minecraft Bedrock supports cross-play between all available platforms: Xbox, PlayStation, PC via Xbox Store, Nintendo Switch, Android, and IOS. This information can be found on the official Minecraft page here.
