Minecraft ways to play.

[nickofh]

Hello.

I am thinking of getting my son (6) his first tablet for Christmas this year.

He likes Minecraft having seen them building big Ben and titanic on you tube. I used to be into games on pc , Xbox and Ipads. Children and family life means I have lost touch with gaming. What would be the best way for him to play ? I have an Xbox 360 & a business laptop.

Would a £150 10" tablet or a used laptop of the same price work smoothly or an Xbox one? I want the hour each day he will be allowed to play to be enjoyable , so run nice and smoothly etc.

Thanks.

Nick

[Over over under steer]

Personally, I'd stick with the Xbox version at his age. As he gets older he may wish to join the modding community in Minecraft, at which point a PC would suit better, but if you already have an xbox use that.

Minecraft, once you start to mod it with texture packs etc can be rather demanding on a PC, therefore a cheap tablet or user laptop will start to struggle. Let him explore the interest on Xbox first

[Mammasaid]

Minecraft runs fine on a iPad mini 4 which we bought about 5 years ago and on a Samsung Tab A (2018) also.

Any modern tablet should be able to run it.

[nickofh]

Thank you both for those replies.

I think I will go with a tablet it will be more of a gift a game for my old console would be.


Nick

[miniman]

nickofh said:

Thank you both for those replies.

I think I will go with a tablet it will be more of a gift a game for my old console would be.


Nick

My kids play it all the time on Fire HD tablets. And Xbox. And Switch. And watch various people playing it on Youtube.