This information has arrived after Microsoft previously stated that Minecraft skins exclusive to a console would remain locked to their respective platforms despite the game’s cross-play-focused “Better Together” update. Regardless of these initial claims, it appears that mash-up packs will only be released on a case-by-case basis, as Minecraft’s Aubrey Norris took to Twitter to specify that only the Halo mash-up pack will eventually be arriving on all participating platforms as of this writing.
Despite Sony opting out of playing ball with a cross-play system, Nintendo and Microsoft have always shared something of a much more friendly relationship. Microsoft even began development of a Halo game for Nintendo DS before opting to pull the plug on the project. Still, that hasn’t prevented the Microsoft-owned studio Rare from developing games for Nintendo’s line of handhelds, including Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise and Diddy Kong Racing DS.
Others remain hopeful that this gesture could lead to further crossovers between Nintendo and Microsoft in the future, such as Banjo-Kazooie appearing in Super Smash Bros. or Minecraft’s Super Mario mash-up pack arriving on other platforms. Those desires remain to be realized, but it’s no longer blasphemous to suggest that Banjo could appear as a Minecraft skin on Switch as somewhat of a quasi-reunion for the property and its protagonist.
Minecraft is currently available across every major platform.
