Microsoft explains why Minecraft 2 is unlikely to happen

Minecraft has been an absolutely huge success on a scale few games get to see. You'd think that would mean a sequel is a shoe-in, right? According to Microsoft's Phil Spencer, that's not really the direction they want to take things.

"We went through it with Minecraft. We didn't ship Minecraft 2 on Xbox One to try to compel everybody to move to the next console, because that's not what Minecraft players want. They just want Minecraft to get better. When you look at games like PUBG and Fortnite and you think about these large games and ecosystems that'll be out there, when new hardware comes, people are still going to want to play those games, and it's going to be important for us as platforms to support them."