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More powerful hardware, such as the PS4 Neo, opens the door for a fundamentally different No Man’s Sky experience, Hello Games founder Sean Murray has told the Daily Star.
“If you play another game and if they do a remaster of that game, what they will do is up-res the textures and things like that,” explained Murray.
“That’s because the base geometry, the base shape of the world, the way of playing is totally like lost, basically. 100’s of people have worked on it thousands of hours to create what you see.”
But this doesn’t apply to No Man’s Sky thanks to the unique way the world is generated.
“For our game it’s procedurally generated. So more powerful hardware doesn’t just mean upgraded textures or a higher framerate. It means we can fundamentally change the experience,” Murray explained.
“You can have – and you’ll see this from our patch notes – we’re able to change huge things in the universe, because we have complete control.
“With more powerful hardware, we can have more trees, more leafs on those trees. The density or immersion of worlds, or new types of worlds could exist.”
This is potentially great news for PlayStation gamers thinking of upgrading their console to the more powerful Neo when it launches, but should also give PC gamers something to be cheerful about. Perhaps the PC version will overtime evolve into something different to the PS4 game.
If you haven’t already seen, two No Man’s Sky players actually found each other yesterday only to find that they couldn’t actually meet in game. It remains unclear if the feature is actually supported.
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Source: Daily Star
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No Man’s Sky
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Space
