> What marginal platform are you talking about?

The Xperia Play.

> Minecraft Pocket Edition is now up for grabs -- provided you've got $6.99 to spare, and you're one of the folks who picked up Sony's Xperia Play.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/238162/minecraft_pocket_editi... (This is so clunky, I wish we just had Markdown).

Not only has he limited himself to Android (you notice no other mobile platforms in your list there) he's chosen to take an exclusivity deal from Sony so that it's artificially limited to only the Xperia Play for at least a month or two.

Android is Java based ... Minecraft is java based ... seems only logical Android is first. I don't really see it going to any other OS myself... maybe the Win7 phone when the xbox version is completed. I bet that payment from Sony was to convert it, I doubt they had plans to ship to xperia otherwise. If it sells as well as the PSP it will hardly be marginal.

And one to two month is hardly exclusive, its just a marketing gamble by Sony.

> And one to two month is hardly exclusive

It's still a timed exclusive.

Call me crazy, but I don't think 2 months of exclusivity on a game that's still in development is not a huge deal.

I'm guessing that he's talking about this being exclusive to the Sony Xperia phone when he's talking about platform there.