From the article, "As I stated back during E3 2014, the PS4 doesn’t have enough exclusives to justify the cost of entry right now. So many of its best titles are also coming to the Xbox One and PC as well. No Man’s Sky was one of the few games that I was regretting missing. I can’t even tell you how excited I am to hear there will be a PC port coming, as now I don’t have to plunk down for a PS4 to get it.
Therein lies the problem."
Introducing..No Man's Sky: Adrift.A lot has changed in the years since No Man’s Sky released.
Despite No Man Sky's rocky launch, Hello Games managed to turn it into one of the best space exploration RPGs out there.
I hate the whole concept of "comeback story" because at the end of the day it doesn't remove the core issue we had in the first place, that we were lied to, it was disappointing and it launched with bare content to what was promised for years.
Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch but for me if you launch in a terrible state then you had your chance. I can applaud you for what you've done after but at the end of the day there's not much of a choice since most gamers would blank your next product if you ditched your last game so fast, it's not about repairing the game but spending your time repairing gamers trust before you launch your next product otherwise it would be dead on arrival.
With these stories and the games being updated, the only way is up most of the time so of course it's going to improve the game and feel better over all, getting better and better as time passes. No Mans Sky, Sea of Thieves, Fallout 76 etc but then you have games like Anthem, Suicide Squad, Redfall and The Avengers where the devs just clearly moved on, now if they have another product people won't be as exited for it, I mean hell Guardians of the Galaxy was a great game but because of the Avengers it didn't help its sales since people were obviously still sour at that point.
I still think despite the improvements to games like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk along with being better now overall the games are still not up there to what was promised and hyped as for years.
If we keep celebrating these “comeback stories” then unfortunately it only strongly supports the concept that these studios / publishers can continue to push half arsed broken products out for the sake of quick sales instead of waiting until they are fully finished. We need to condemn this awful behaviour or sadly we lose all voice and power as consumers.
I really enjoyed it at launch and had every trophy by August 2016.
The experience I had is no longer in the game: It was just me and my ship. It was a survival game and the feeling of loneliness in the universe was pervasive. There was no way to ruin too far from your ship and, in an emergency, you grenaded a hole in the ground to survive.
I miss that aspect, but since then, I love what they've done.
Orbital update drops today, also bringing with it engine improvements and UI refresh.
It gives PC gamers less reason to own a PS4. Big deal. PS4 owners will still play the crap out of it with Project Morpheus most likely and it's still a console exclusive. If this hurts Sony at all, it won't be nearly as painful as the author wants me to believe.
Too bad you're still gonna have to wait for it.
How? PS4 is not competing with PC. PC gamers are not even the target audience for Sony. Anyone who is only a PC gamer is not going to buy a console regardless of how many exclusives it may have.
It's indie, it should be on all systems anyway unless Sony throw in some really large bucks to the dev, all indie games should be multiplatform by default. They need the most support.
" as now I don’t have to plunk down for a PS4 to get it. "
Is this demographic so large that it even matters? Like, I am certain some people are really excited for No Man's Sky and it certainly looks interesting to say the least, but I really can't imagine many people would say it's a game they would be willing to pay $400 to experience. Especially since most people agree that the concept that 1 game can sell a system is simply untrue. What typically happens is eventually some game will wear down someones resolve and they will pick up the system.
In any case, I imagine this will actually help Sony and really Hello Games in general. Since the game now has a wider market, it means that more sites will be covering and more people will be reading the news. Increased exposure will probably lead to more sales and ultimately more copies will sell regardless.