What is Minecraft Preview?
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What is Minecraft Preview?
Best answer:Minecraft Preview separates the long-running beta program from Minecraft: Bedrock Edition into its own separate game, allowing Minecraft players everywhere to experience the latest features, changes, and fixes coming to Minecraft in the future. Minecraft Preview will also eventually come to more platforms than the aging beta program and open the doors to even more players.
Breaking down Minecraft Preview
Minecraftdidn’t become one of the greatest and most successful games of all time with Mojang Studios resting on its laurels. Minecraft’s creators constantly bring brand-new content and updates to the perpetually evolving game, and ensures the community is involved every step of the way through the release of experimental pre-release betas and snapshots.
Minecraft Preview is the next chapter of this effort, and aims to make it even easier for interested Minecraft players to test upcoming updates and changes, submit feedback and suggestions, and help contribute to the continual growth of Minecraft. Essentially, Minecraft Preview is a separate game that players can install on supported devices, and serves all the same purposes as the existing Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta program but with fewer restrictions and compromises.
The old Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta program was available on Xbox consoles, Windows PCs, and Android devices, and was an optional program that goes through the full Minecraft game on those platforms. Because of how the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta works, it was limited to the platform on which it already exists, and forced players to choose between playing the public version of Minecraft, testing pre-release builds, or constantly switching between them by unenrolling from the beta program.
Minecraft Preview avoids these pitfalls, and aims to completely replace the beta program and become the go-to avenue for players to participate in Minecraft’s ongoing development as one of thebest Xbox games(and let’s be honest, as one of thebest games of all time). The old beta program now only exists on Android devices, with Minecraft Preview taking over on more platforms. Here’s what you need to know about Minecraft Preview:
Different ways to test and play
It’s easy to obtain Minecraft Preview and begin testing the future of Minecraft, but it also depends on which platform you prefer to play. Minecraft Preview is accessed a little differently on every platform on which it’s available, and as Minecraft Preview continues to expand to new ecosystems, it’ll likely become even more varied. Here’s how you can play Minecraft Preview on every platform it’s currently available:
Minecraft Preview
Minecraft Preview gives passionate players an easy, feature-packed way to test future Minecraft updates, submit feedback, and actively participate in the development process. Minecraft Preview is now available on Xbox, Windows, and iOS platforms.
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Players interested in diving into Minecraft Preview can do so through PC Game Pass, and will soon be able to through Xbox Game Pass, both of which are included in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Besides access to hundreds of other games and perks, XGPU is one of the best ways to play Minecraft Preview.
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Zachary Boddy (They / Them) is a Staff Writer for Windows Central, primarily focused on covering the latest news in tech and gaming, the best Xbox and PC games, and the most interesting Windows and Xbox hardware. They have been gaming and writing for most of their life starting with the original Xbox, and started out as a freelancer for Windows Central and its sister sites in 2019. Now a full-fledged Staff Writer, Zachary has expanded from only writing about all things Minecraft to covering practically everything on which Windows Central is an expert, especially when it comes to Microsoft. You can find Zachary on Twitter@BoddyZachary.
