“Near-Impossible” No Man’s Sky Nintendo Switch Version Inbound

During yesterday'south Nintendo Direct broadcast, it was appear that No Human being'south Heaven will exist coming to the Nintendo Switch this Summer.

Quite the surprise considering the game's procedural nature and beingness quite enervating. On the game'south official blog, No Man'due south Sky creator Sean Murray talked nigh the Switch port, and how information technology appeared to exist most-impossible to bring the game to Nintendo's platform on various occasions.

"For the terminal couple of years, a couple of members of our small team have been secretly working on the Nintendo Switch version of No Human being's Sky", Murray writes. "It has been a existent moonshot. No Man's Heaven is congenital around procedural generation, which means the console generates everything you lot come across. This makes it so much harder to bring our game to something similar the Switch. There have been so many times where we've gone home one mean solar day convinced it was impossible, only to have someone step 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-incommunicable things."

According to the founder of Hello Games, being able to travel from planet to planet on the Switch is quite amazing and he often has to remind himself that this game is running pretty great on the platform.

"From UI to controllers to gameplay, we're taking the fourth dimension to make this feel completely at home on the device, both on the big screen, just importantly as a portable version of No Man's Heaven", he explained. "Every time I option the Switch up and seamlessly jump from planet to planet, from star system to star organization, I have to pinch myself that I am playing on the Nintendo Switch and that I tin take it with me wherever I go."

More information almost the Switch version of No Man's Heaven will exist shared closer to release this Summer. For at present, stay tuned.