4J Studios, the developer tasked with porting Mojang’s Minecraft to the Xbox 360 by way of Xbox Live Arcade, says that the team is working closely with Microsoft to possibly have regular updates to Minecraft on the Xbox 360.
The PC version has seen a steady stream of updates ever since it went alpha, but it isn’t so easy to constantly roll out updates on the Xbox 360. Microsoft has a strict certification process for any update that makes its way to Xbox Live, making the roll-out of a patch a slow process.
Microsoft is, however, aware that the process needs to be faster to keep the XBLA version of Minecraft close to its PC counterpart. In an interview with Edge, 4J Studios’ Paddy Burns says that Microsoft is aiming to streamline the process of getting updates out the door.
“Microsoft knows that to do a similar thing that’s on PC where they constantly update it, that’s a very difficult thing to do on Xbox because you have to go through the full tests,” he told us. “But they are quite keen to move towards that – they do see it as the future, so I think we might be the first to do constant updates.”
While Burns admits that it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever see updates as regularly as the PC version, it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that an update could come every two months or so.
“We’ll have to see how that goes,” Burns said. “I’m really looking forward to it being updated with patches and new features after it’s released.”
