Will No Man's Sky On Switch Have Every Update
A Nintendo Switch port for No Man's Sky was recently revealed at the February 2022 Nintendo Direct, but will it include all of the updates the game has received over its lifetime? No Man's Sky is an ambitious game, with a notoriously bad launch, but has managed to turn things around with a wealth of post-release content. The game relies heavily on procedural generation, and getting it onto a comparatively underpowered platform like the Nintendo Switch has apparently been a challenge.
No Man's Sky was announced roughly three years prior to its launch in 2016, and the ambitious project boasting a universe comprised of 18 quintillion explorable planets immediately became highly anticipated. The independent development studio, Hello Games, is incredibly small and ultimately failed to deliver on a number of promised features at launch. Backlash to the fiasco was immense, topped only recently by the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 and Battlefield 2042, but No Man's Sky has since become one of the greatest comeback stories in gaming history. Following a series of free content updates, the most recent of which is No Man's Sky's story-drive Emergence Expedition, the game's reputation has been thoroughly restored, though not really considered the industry-shattering experience some of the runaway, pre-release hype made it out to be.
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Over five years after launch, No Man's Sky is officially landing on the Nintendo Switch, and it doesn't appear to be a stunted version of the game. The announcement trailer, found alongside some additional comments on the No Man's Sky website, mentions that the Switch version includes "5 years of updates" just before many of the major
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