Minecraft Wii U Edition Classification Has Been Removed By PEGI

Lulz...

Good.

@Dankykong How is it good exactly?

Here's hoping it was just an early announcement. Considering how Microsoft had been inbracing open source and opening their software on other platforms (MS Office on android or Apple devices for instance) it would make sense to put an open platform game like this on as many platforms ask possible.

I still say Microsoft is just trolling everyone.

Nooo....Come back.... you were in our hands.....NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I hope you all are right, cuz minecraft is pretty much the only game ( besides forza) that I really want to play but can't on Wii U. Granted there's PC edition and Pocket Edition, ( which I have ) but they all fulfill a certain role for me. So I kinda "need" all three. ( and if it wasn't obvious already, I only have a Wii U and I can't afford another console )

Microsoft was ready to release it on Wii U but when they saw that the new smash character was Cloud and not Banjo, they pulled out

Sad news. We are going to buy Minecraft for our kids by Christmas.Would prefer Wii U... but if it's not available we'll just use a different platform.

I think it will come to Wii U in 2016. ITs Microsoft, but they didn't cancel the PS4 release when they bought Moijang either. It even exist on VITA.
This is the MS game they want everywhere to keep it alive for a long time. Maybe it even is a launch game for NX.
Wii U and PC fits this this game best, but and yet Wii U don't have it. It would be stupid to ignored the touch pad and release it for standard gamepad on NX instead.
It makes sense for NX instead, only if NX supports Wii U touch pad as an option.

A ratings board can't give a rating for a game that doesn't exist. I mean let's be real here, there is no legitimate way that a ratings board could review a game that is not in their possession. Retailer listings can be created falsely by an overexcited employee putting up a product mistakenly. If website manager A is given a list of things to put up on their website, and "amiibo" was next to "Shovel Knight Wii U Physical", then they may have a moment of word confusion and write Shovel Knight amiibo. Now granted, that one came with a picture, but if it didn't, then I'm saying that's how an announcement for something nonexistent could happen. But a conscious REVIEW of a game is no oversight. Someone took their time to look through the game and give it a rating, and someone else put that rating on the website prematurely. Mark my words, Minecraft Wii U is still happening.

a great tactic to disappoint a rival company's fanbase if you ask me. if not intentional, i would expect moves like this to surface more and more.

nintendo has effectively vowed to be a market disrupter, and has proven themselves capable at doing so. business is a bloodthirsty model in the west, and established companies do not suffer market disruptions gladly.

if i was microsoft, sony, ea, ubisoft, etc, i'd be doing crap like this all the time. i'd also have decent size of stock in a rival company so i could try to make people freak out at key times by selling the right amount to make it look worse than it is, then if it didn't work, i'd buy back slowly to try again. not sure if it's illegal, but it certainly could trigger the shareholder flight response if done even half right.

what's more, we have a conspiracy theory phobic culture in the west (we like to pretend collusion doesn't happen as often as it actually does), so it's quite a doable tactic if you ask me.

plain and simple: once more the timing is far too suspicous. the cards are stacking up such that something certainly appears rotten in our gamerland of denmark.

It's probably just a honest mistake and was added to the site prematurely. Or perhaps they found a major bug really late, and had to postpone it. I expect we'll see it on the Wii U eventually.

@day I feel like I understand every word individually in your rant, but something didn't flow, or maybe I'm just tired because I didn't understand what you were telling us.

I wonder if it was true and Nintendo have reacted badly and are now just airbrushing it from existence like that Treehouser spilling the localisation beans. Surely they wouldn't cut their noses to spite their face with such an arguably major game they'd be getting. I'd like an official statement whatever the case. If it does come to the Wii U, I hope they give it some exclusive features, both superficial and deep.

My hunch is that it was a deliberate troll by someone, internal to PEGI or maybe an outsider.

The release date being the same day as the Direct is just too much of a coincidence. I wonder how different the timings were between when the Direct was announced and when the rating went live.

Once this went public I can see absolutely no point in it getting pulled if it was a genuine rating.

Sadly, I think we've been had.

it was probably just MS covering all their bases in case they did eventually want to release it on Wii U

I notice there's no 'online' badge in that image...

I'm sure 99% of us already have access to it anyway.

It won't come on Wii U, but maybe on NX...as long as the NX gets enough support and love. It will all depend on nintendo and us fans on if the NX will get back the 3rd party love.

@Dankykong Good? How is this good?

@Ventilator Contracts could easily hold the game on Sony Systems and the fees to break those contracts could have been worse than taking the game revenue that it was already making (makes sense). I am pretty sure the PS5 or next Sony Handheld will not have minecraft at all. Same would go for any Nintendo system and anything minecraft they get, will be only selective.

Haha...minecraft and microsoft have something in common, they both ABSOLUTELY SUCK!!! hahahaha....

Meh, nothing of value was lost. We already have a Minecraft clone, and another one is approaching, so I don't see the point of releasing Minecraft on WiiU at this point, or why people still want it. It has basically no advantage over the other game, except for some iconic things that don't make for better gameplay. It's probably just brand obsession.

This morning on UK TV I saw the advert for Minecraft: Story Mode. At the end of the advert they showed the boxed versions for Xbox and PS but below that the logo for the Wii U version was also shown.

@Captain_Gonru
I don't know if something like this happened before. But I don't believe that this post was a mistake. I mean, the game is not called "Minecraft Wii U" but "Minecraft Wii U Edition". Like it is a special version, tailor-made for Wii U.

I hope it does come out for Wii U - although I've got it on enough machines already.

I would imagine it's actually related to the Minecraft: Story Mode Wii U edition and not the original Minecraft. Look at the description: it says Puzzle, which is more like what Story Mode is. OK it's PEGI 7 and not 12, but maybe they've edited out a load of the minor bad language uses to bring it down to a more suitable age rating?

I told you guys you should have listed it as "rumour" last time. But nooooooo, you list it as "news", say it's going to be in the ND, going to release THAT DAY, (b/c that's how Minecraft alwsys releases on systems, unannounced /s), then when it isn't everyone is upset, looking for a mirage in the sand. News indeed.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/minecraft_wii_u_edition_has_been_rated_by_pegi

Oh and one more thing: it says Microsoft Studios - yes, Microsoft own Mojang, but they are not the Publishers of Minecraft or Minecraft: Story Mode which would make me think the whole thing is either a mistake or a hoax.

@Kaze_Memaryu Except Brand Obsession is the only thing that matters to most kids, most gamers, and most people in general, and when mom and dad are trying to decide what console Santa is going to bring the wee little ones for Christmas, nobody gives a fig about Ucraft or Stone Shire, all anybody wants to know is Where can I play Minecraft?

It's not about current Wii U owners as much as selling a few more consoles this holiday before NX. If Minecraft did come out on Wii U it would get 10x the marketing muscle and $ spent on it by MS than Nintendo is spending on AC:aF and Mario Tennis, which as near as I can tell is ZERO. XCX has a big fat zero so far as well, but they are probably waiting until after BF for that. Minecraft would be a visible presence of a known entity.

So yes, it is a big deal. Maybe if St argon Zero and Zelda U were out this holiday like Nintendo has told us on several occasions then Minecraft wouldn't really matter, but they aren't. Had Minecraft been announced and released last Thursday that 1 game might have sold more Wii U this holiday than any other.

St Argon Zero is the game I'm waiting for anyway.

So...basically, this amounted to nothing.

Did they get confused by the minecraft vs minecraft: story mode?

I'm calling prank. Those cheeky PEGIs.

It's definitely coming: this page was put up by Dutch retailer bol.com (the biggest online shop in The Netherlands), and I've never seen them put up 'fake' products.

http://www.bol.com/nl/p/minecraft-story-mode-wii-u/9200000049691500/

I wonder if (1) the date got reverse and (2) Steve is the winner of Smash vote and to celebrate Minecraft comes to the Wii U.

A reversed date is the most likely explanation. The "release date" for PEGI purposes is basically an embargo date, before which they won't publish details of your rating - a delayed release has no bearing on the rating. The ratings web form asks you to type it in European DD.MM.YYYY format, which could be easily done wrong by an American team. 11th December is a Friday, and therefore a suitable release date for a retail game.

Easy money for M$, so they should just do it already...

@notcallum That's Story Mode. That's not the topic of this page.

Smart move to do. WII U won't last an other year. Next year i'm sure we will see a lot more details of the NX console. So why waste time on a system that will be out soon. Maybe till end 2016 but i see 2017 a good start for the next system. I'm sure the fans will be able to play it then. You just have to be patient and move on to the better system which won't limit you! Nuff said

This will bring up the Nintendoom for sure...

Personally, I don't mind if it does come or not. There's much more pressing issues like NoA's complete ignorance of Xenoblade X.

Good.

@Dankykong You are one of those puss filled gamers obviously. Why would less games be a good thing >_<