Minecraft: Wii U Edition comes to the eShop on 17th December

Nintendo Europe has just announced that Minecraft is headed to the Wii U on December 17th. Nintendo says that they will be working with Mojang on new content packs for Nintendo fans to be released at a later time.

Minecraft: Wii U Edition has been rumoured for a while now and it all came to a head a couple of days before the last Nintendo Direct when the game was classified in Europe. The Direct came and we never got Minecraft – but here it is.

The game features Off-TV play, but no word yet if the inventory will make it to the touch screen. Surely after this long it should.

Along with the vanilla game a number of content packs will be released on the eShop along with the game.

The following packs will be free;

• Battle & Beasts Skin Pack
• Battle & Beasts 2 Skin Pack
• Natural Texture Pack
• City Texture Pack
• Fantasy Texture Pack
• Festive Mash-up Pack

There’s also these sixteen packs to purchase if you so please.

• Festive Skin Pack
• The Simpsons Skin Pack
• Doctor Who Skins Volume 1
• Doctor Who Skins Volume 2
• Star Wars Classic Skin Pack
• Star Wars Rebels Skin Pack
• Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack
• Mass Effect Mash-up Pack
• Skyrim Mash-up Pack
• Plastic Texture Pack
• Candy Texture Pack
• Cartoon Texture Pack
• Steampunk Texture Pack
• Pattern Texture Pack

The game is said to cost $29US which here in Australia will be around $35AUD but we’ll follow up with Nintendo to confirm.