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Return Ray Tracing Support To Xbox Series X/S + add support for PS5

In 2020 (before the release of the Xbox Series X/S) Microsoft demonstrated Minecraft with ray tracing running natively on an Xbox Series X. This prompted people to seek out a purchase of this console with the expectation of having access to ray tracing. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case. Instead, Mojang decided to stay completely silent about it. Myself and many other people concluded that it will most likely never come and that we were intentionally misled.

 

A few days ago however, a surprise update! Mojang released a new preview build that included support for Series X/S consoles to enable ray tracing. Finally! I remember being genuinely over the moon about this information. This made me infinitely more excited about the upcoming update as well. We could also clearly see that the preview ran extremely well on Series X.

 

However, shame on us for getting excited. Mojang announced a few days later that this was a mistake and does not mean they plan on supporting ray tracing for consoles. Immediately, my excitement turned to dissapointment, and then anger. It's been 2 years since we saw that demo, and now this? Shame on you Mojang. Seriously.

 

We can see that it was working. Just give us it.

 

My theory: either they genuinely don't care about their fans and wanted to intentionally make the console experience worse than pc OR there is a shady deal between them and Nvidia that restricts this from happening. Either way, shame on you Mojang

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    Hurry up and bring out Minecraft RTX on Console. Otherwise people will have enough and won't play your game. You have new gen consoles let it run smoother on them.

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    Bruh, Mojang, Because of the more recent updates you are literally losing people, and like this guy said, it clearly ran smoothly, just hand over the rtx, It's not that hard you bunch of morons, significantly more detailed games have it just fine, even my old phone could handle it on a minecraft website supporting shaders, what's the deal?! Either give it to us or explain exactly why you won't.