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Microsoft Delays Minecraft Update Because the Team Was Playing Pokemon Go

Now we know for sure they’re not using Windows phones

Jul 20, 2016 12:16 GMT  ·  By
Windows Phone users hope to see Nintendo bringing Pokemon Go on their devices too
   Windows Phone users hope to see Nintendo bringing Pokemon Go on their devices too

The team at Mojang has announced that the latest Minecraft update is only available for Android users because engineers in charge of Pocket Edition and the Windows 10 Edition Beta got “distracted” and didn’t complete the necessary work to publish the new version.

In a message posted on the company’s blog (via WinBeta), Microsoft’s Mojang says that the reason the team was distracted in the last couple of weeks was Pokemon Go, Nintendo’s new smashing hit that’s being played pretty much by everyone with an Android device or iPhone in the majority of countries around the world.

Here’s the message that the Mojang team has posted earlier today, but note that they are the ones who actually used caps for the full announcement, so blame them, not us for hurting your eyes (also consider that there’s a small chance that the message might not refer to Pokemon Go, but we’re pretty sure that the monsters they are mentioning are actually Pokemon they’ve been trying to catch):

“DUE TO A TECHNICAL FAULT CAUSED BY SMALL MONSTERS INFILTRATING MOJANG OFFICE AND DISTRACTING THE WORKFORCE: THIS UPDATE IS CURRENTLY ONLY ROLLING OUT FOR Google Play USERS. IT’LL BE WITH EVERYONE ELSE IN A FUTURE UPDATE.”

Not using Windows phones

Although it’s a little bit surprising to see the team postponing the release of a Minecraft update because of playing Pokemon Go, it’s very clear that no engineer at Mojang is using Windows phones on a daily basis. Pokemon Go is only available on Android and iOS, and for the moment, there’s no plan to release it on Windows Phone, no matter how hard users insisted for such a version.

On the other hand, the most optimistic users think that Mojang engineers are playing Pokemon Go because the team is working with Nintendo on bringing the game to Windows Phone, and this is the reason they need to conduct thorough testing.

Unfortunately, this is very unlikely to be the case, and Nintendo still doesn’t seem to be planning a Windows Phone version of Pokemon Go, but hopefully, Microsoft will find a way to convince them to at least consider such a version.