For No Man’s Sky, the game that originally arrived to PlayStation 4 in one of the most disappointing states for any release at the time has completely did a 180 over the past few years. Much so that studio head Sean Murray has offered some wisdom from the event to other developers on games like Fallout 76 & Sea of Thieves which went on to flourish in their own respect.
The game also evolved from this metamorphosis with new releases on other platforms. We saw Xbox alongside even a virtual reality port on PlayStation VR & SteamVR later on. However, Nintendo Switch is the remaining system to receive the game. Previously, a listing from GameStop shared a version was in the works for the console handheld hybrid.
It was not until this week during the Nintendo Direct presentation that Hello Games revealed No Man’s Sky is coming to Nintendo Switch in the coming months, You can watch the reveal trailer in the video below:
“I can’t tell you how incredible it feels to play No Man’s Sky on this tiny portable device. It feels both completely natural and also totally improbable at the same time,” Murray expresses in an announcement post for the port. “For the last couple of years, a couple of members of our small team have been secretly working on the Nintendo Switch version of No Man’s Sky. It has been a real moonshot. No Man’s Sky is built around procedural generation, which means the console generates everything you see.
“This makes it so much harder to bring our game to something like the Switch. There have been so many times where we’ve gone home one day convinced it was impossible, only to have someone stride in the next day with a unique technical solution. Honestly I think this team never seems happier than when they are trying to do near-impossible things.
“From UI to controllers to gameplay, we’re taking the time to make this feel completely at home on the device, both on the big screen, but importantly as a portable version of No Man’s Sky. Every time I pick the Switch up and seamlessly jump from planet to planet, from star system to star system, I have to pinch myself that I am playing on the Nintendo Switch, and that I can take it with me wherever I go.”
Previously, No Man’s Sky welcomed yet another game changing update, Frontiers. The title update welcomes settlement building for players to make home on any foreign planet they visit. You can read the full report by heading here.
Are you planning to nab No Man’s Sky for Nintendo Switch?
No Man’s Sky hits Nintendo Switch in summer 2022; out now for PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, and Xbox Series X|S.
Source: Hello Games
