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No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray has issued a bunch of interesting stats on the ambitious space exploration title to mark the launch of the game's Next update this week.
Writing in a message to the community on the game's website, Murray confirmed that one million players jumped into No Man's Sky for the launch of Atlas Rises, notching up 45 hours on average and 90% of players giving it a positive rating.
By far the biggest stat drop is that No Man's Sky players have clocked over 200 million hours to date since the game's launch on PlayStation 4 and PC in August 2016.
In addition, Murray openly acknowledged that he made 'mistakes' with the project, and that there was a lack of communication between the studio and its community following all the launch drama.
'I am so proud of the team at Hello Games, what they did was incredible. Over the years of development the average team size was 6, the final team was just 15 people at launch. No Man’s Sky has grown to be a very broad game, ambitious, technically unique and very pretty at times, all the more impressive for a team that is still small,' he said.
'Whilst I couldn’t be prouder of the team, I personally made mistakes. I could talk all day about things I personally would change. Certainly one regret is that the intensity and drama of launch left no room for communication with the community.'
As big of an update that Next is however, Murray made it clear that it's 'not the end of the journey.'
No Man's Sky is now available for Xbox One and includes all major updates seen to date.
