After falling out with Microsoft over his offensive social media posts, the creator of Minecraft is looking to make his own sequel. Some video games don’t really need sequels, and that probably includes Minecraft. It’s the best-selling video game ever made, having sold over 300 million copies, and every month millions of fans continue to play it, despite it being over a decade old.
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As such, publisher Microsoft has no reason to invest in a follow-up and is currently content merely to port Minecraft to newer platforms. It finally came to PlayStation 5 in October and you can definitely expect a Nintendo Switch 2 version once that console is released.
Yet it sounds like a Minecraft 2 could very well happen. Not from Microsoft or developer Mojang Studios, but from the man who created Minecraft in the first place: Markus ‘Notch’ Persson. In a social media post from January 1, Persson shared a poll asking his followers whether they’d be more interested in the new roguelike dungeon crawler he’s working on or Minecraft 2. Unsurprisingly, the latter proved the more popular choice, with 81.5% of the votes at time of writing.
Over the weekend, Persson reiterated he’s ‘100% serious about all that,’ explaining to one confused fan that he ‘basically announced Minecraft 2.’ He added, ‘I don’t super duper care exactly which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know I’m making one.’.
Persson has more accurately described the new game as ‘a spiritual successor to Minecraft.’ After all, he can’t actually call it Minecraft 2 without getting a visit from Microsoft’s lawyers, since Persson sold the Minecraft IP for $2.5 billion in 2014.
