David Nisshagen, Mojang Studios Executive Producer Many of these games are seeing 40% and above playerbases exclusively using touch.

Hellblade is such an immersive game, and how Ninja Theory managed to take it and retain that immersiveness on a small screen, using contextual buttons, is impressive. Personally, I love how Hellblade’s developer Ninja Theory took a different approach from Minecraft Dungeons, using contextualization. Hellblade has seen similar numbers, great success with their work. And the coolest thing is we’re not alone in this either. That was above the goal we set for ourselves. That’s 40% of players who never have to touch a controller. About 40% of players that play Minecraft Dungeons on their phone use touch exclusively. We’ve had some really good numbers from our end too. In a report from Windows Central, it discussed the topic of touch screen controls with Mojang Studios and concluded that the feature is the forefront for Xbox Game Pass reaching a broader audience. While The Coalition’s Gears 5 pioneered the feature even earlier, Minecraft Dungeons happened to be the first to implement it. While Microsoft continue to campaign for Bluetooth-paired controllers connected to a phone clip, the Mojang Studios title did not require any additional accessories. Surely, the feature for full-on cross-platform play that was appointed to the game back in November which bridges all versions of the game to one ecosystem is worth noting.īut prior to that, Minecraft Dungeons happened to be the first title to introduce touch screen controls to xCloud in September.

While Minecraft Dungeons since its May release has continued to offer its players an expansive experience with content add-ons in its post-launch phase, there are other namely additions that go under the radar which should be noted. Listen to this Article: 🔊 Listen to this

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