- A prodigy developer just ported Minecraft Pocket Edition onto the Sony PlayStation 2.
- Miecraft was never officially released for PS2, and previous ports either required hardware mods or were coded from scratch.
- This port, named OptiCraft, can also run on PS2 emulators for other platforms, including Windows and Android.
The Sony PlayStation 2 and Minecraft have something in common: they are the best-selling properties in their respective categories. Let me explain. The PS2 is the highest-selling gaming console of all time, with more than 160 million units estimated to be sold. That’s about 1.5 times the PS4, and a little short of two times the PS5’s lifetime sales. Minecraft, on the other hand, is the most-sold non-arcade video game of all time (Tetris remains the absolute leader otherwise).
Despite both being icons in their own categories, it’s ironic that Minecraft was never officially released for the PS2. While it did arrive on the PS3 after its launch in 2013, there have been tireless efforts to “demake” Minecraft for the PS2, and even the older PS1. However, these builds required modified hardware or the creation of the entire game from the ground up. Those efforts, however, have finally led to a developer porting the game, which now runs without a modded console, almost 15 years after its official release.
