{"id":105210,"date":"2019-12-09T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=435569"},"modified":"2019-12-09T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:27:43","slug":"bedrock-version-of-minecraft-coming-to-playstation-4-enabling-cross-play-with-friends-on-xbox-one-nintendo-switch-windows-10-and-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/bedrock-version-of-minecraft-coming-to-playstation-4-enabling-cross-play-with-friends-on-xbox-one-nintendo-switch-windows-10-and-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedrock version of Minecraft coming to PlayStation 4, enabling cross-play with friends on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10 and mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bedrock-version-of-minecraft-coming-to-playstation-4-enabling-cross-play-with-friends-on-xbox-one-nintendo-switch-windows-10-and-mobile.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo how is this different from the version of Minecraft I can already play on my PS4?\u201d The difference is that the Bedrock version of Minecraft is the unified version of the game that offers the same experience across all consoles. All that glorious, unified code means that you\u2019ll be playing the same game as your pals on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10, and mobile! So, yes \u2013 that means you get <b>cross-play between those different consoles<\/b> (once you\u2019re running the most recent update). Not just that, PS4 players now also have access to the <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.minecraft.net\/en-us\">Minecraft Marketplace<\/a> \u2013 a source for worlds, skins, mini-games, and mash up packs! So you\u2019re going to have not just a better Minecraft experience than ever before, but <i>more <\/i>Minecraft than ever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if I already own Minecraft on PS4, do I need to buy the game again to get the Bedrock version?\u201d \u2013 to which I say, you have a lot of questions and this is an article, not a FAQ! But, more to the point, you can get the new version of the game free of charge. The next time you start Minecraft, the new update will install automatically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So with that, we welcome the newest addition to the Bedrock family with a hurrah! Just look out for a certain update that we can\u2019t stop buzzing about that will roll out this week. Welcome to the Overworld, PS4 players!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo how is this different from the version of Minecraft I can already play on my PS4?\u201d The difference is that the Bedrock version of Minecraft is the unified version of the game that offers the same experience across all consoles. All that glorious, unified code means that you\u2019ll be playing the same game as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[121,50],"class_list":["post-105210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-minecraft","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}