No Man’s Sky NEXT is now available across Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4, marking the game’s debut on Xbox One.
In addition to the game’s expansion today, developer Hello Games has promised weekly content updates alongside community events.
“Seven years ago I sat down to write the first lines of code on what became No Man’s Sky,” Hello Games’ Sean Murray wrote in an email to Stevivor. “I wanted to work on something innovative, ambitious but very personal.
“Nearly two years ago our small team of friends, with a shared love of sci-fi, opened up the universe of No Man’s Sky for the first time. It was an innovative, weird and at times lonely game. I loved that, it reminded me of the science fiction books I grew up with.
“I am so proud of the team at Hello Games. Over the years of development, the average team size was 6, the final team was just 15 people at launch. From day one, No Man’s Sky was a very broad game, ambitious, technically unique and very pretty at times.”
Murray acknowledged that the game that he and his team delivered wasn’t one that fans might have been expecting.
“We always expected our strange and lonely game to be polarising at launch, and it was, but those that loved it played for thousands of hours and talked about it as a relaxing, meditative, and very chilled experience,” he continued.
“We always wanted No Man’s Sky to grow and develop after it released. I’m happy we’ve been able to do that, that the press and the community have stayed with us for the journey, and now we’re able to bring the game to the Xbox One community too. After four major updates, No Man’s Sky has become broader and deeper, and now supports many different play styles. Each update brought back many who saw the potential in our procedurally generated universe.”
As we’ve previously detailed, No Man’s Sky has changed quite a bit since launch, and those updates are on top of the additions NEXT brings. It might be a good time to jump back in — especially considering NEXT is free to those who’ve bought the game previously on Windows PC and PS4.
“One day I hope to reach a point where I feel No Man’s Sky is “finished”, but until then there’s still so much more we want to do. More than any other update so far, NEXT has been important to our small team,” Murray concluded. “It feels like a major landmark in the game’s story and an appropriate point to bring it to the Xbox platform. But I know it’s not the end of the journey, a journey which will be much more fun together.”
Are you planning to give No Man’s Sky NEXT a try?
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