No Man's Sky's 18 Quintillion Planets Take Up Just 6 GB on Disc

Update 1: travel to various planets to catch pokemon with your universal smartphone and Pokemon Go app.

So I guess there really won't be a bunch of video walk throughs on Youtube for this game. At least not in the normal sense.

Flop in progress... Pls review the game before it comes out like you do with many Xbox titles..... Thanks...

Game development is like chess. Each dev tries to compete by either positioning or distracting when in a vulnerable position. This Pokemon go craze is sweeping the world and it is providing a fun distraction to traditional gaming. Sony needs to consider delaying this game so it gets the attention it deserves, although most of us agree it may be too late to the party. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Can't justify $60 for a 6gb game...The industry these days....

30$ would have been better. i was considering getting it. But 60$? Nope

The one thing I'm looking forward to seeing from NMS (il buy it when it's on sale because I'm tight) is all the glitch videos on youtube, the possibilities with procedurally generated content has the potential to be hilarious.

NMS is gonna tank so badly. Just the fact that it's a full retail release at 60 dollars with PSX graphics alone has doomed it. It's went from cool indie ppl will download and have fun with to a delayed out of people's hearts and mind 60 dollar game. If it's great word of mouth can sell some copies tho..

Ok so just to clarify a few things for the people who CLEARLY haven't the time or couldn't be bothered researching themselves:

- THE UNIVERSE ISN'T RANDOM and it's procedurally generated based on rules that create the game's universe (yes, there IS a difference between procedurally and randomly generated). So planets closer to the sun will be hotter, planets further away are colder, different chemical elements that make up the star systems/planets affect the weather, climate etc on planets and these rules in turn affect whether life grows there or not. With so many different rules affecting how the universe is made, it *should* lead to lots of variations.

IT'S THE SAME UNIVERSE FOR EVERY PLAYER because it generates everything around you based on your co-ordinates in the universe. So if someone eventually goes to the same co-ordinates, they will see the same things.

IT'S A UNIVERSE WITH MANY, MANY GALAXIES. Everyone starts on the outer edges of the same galaxy, however there are lots and lots of galaxies

THERE IS STUFF TO DO. LOTS OF IT. You're goal is to get to the centre of the starting Galaxy but it's up to you how to make your journey there. On the way there are countless missions and points of interest, buildings and ruins to explore, wreckages to salvage, weapons to find or craft and alien factions to find/trade/ally/fight with.

All this and a lot more information on WHAT YOU ACTUALLY DO!!!?? is available with a simple search online.

Now, I'm not saying nms will live up to the hype - we'll have to wait until it's released to find out. However some people talk about the game as though they've played it for months when clearly they have NO IDEA what they're talking about.

Ok lets talk Diablo for a minute.

Diablo came out in 1996, and it has randomly generated levels/dungeons

Same for Diablo II and Diablo III

I really, really enjoyed the Diablo series and kept playing and replaying them despite running through dungeons that are different each time with monsters that are now purple or green or blue

But I was hooked, reason being : There is always NEW LOOT TO DISCOVER, some cool armor, a rare hammer or sword or some such artifact and when you find a complete set, it turns you into a b4darse killing machine ready to teach the end of level boss some hard hitting lessons

So to me as long as NMS sticks with the above formula I'm in for the long haul

$10/GB. Sounds "legit".

I'm very excited to explore. I'm going to make the greatest discoveries...and nobody else will ever see them.

Misleading title. It's a procedurally generated game, all those planets are not stored in the disc. Imagine the loading time if they were.

To all the people saying it's going to get boring in a few hours, let me ask you, what do you do in Destiny, COD, battlefield, FIFA, Madden, Forza...etc that isn't boring after a few hours? Have fun turning around after 900 yards when you are "leaving the mission zone". And killing the same guys, throwing the same passes, driving the same cars on the same tracks endlessly like everyone already does. People complaining about the 1,000,000 guns in borderlands like it wasn't one of the most popular games of its time. Give it a break already. Also, at $60 this game is a steal. Or, you know, you can run around the same Destiny map 40 Times and hope to get a different gun. Because That's entertainment. Amiright?

Does that mean the game is being printed on dvd's, or will it have multiple copies on a blu-ray so that it can be read faster?

How big are the save files?

Oh my God. I'm, sadly, beginning to believe the gaming community is poisonous and cynical to an extreme. Something awesome happens, like No Man's Sky being made, and people still whine. No Man's Sky doesn't have to be your cup of tea, that's fine, and you can express that, but all I see are people going on and on about how, "there's nothing to do in this game", "the planets are made by the engine, so it sucks", "this game is going to flop". Seriously? This game has done something quite amazing, and whether or not it lives up to the hype or not, it still has accomplished much. Give it a rest guys. Maybe think positively for a few minutes.

The game has very little of actual unique assets but uses the power of procedural tech to make the most of what it got.

All the hype for this game keeps talking about the impossible size of it. Honestly, I don't care if it has a kajillion planets or just 1...I want to know how it plays and if it will be fun/entertaining. All that content means absolutely nothing if the game is boring and feels flat/empty because you can't really do all that much with the content.