No Man's Sky Is Only 6GB On Disc; First Update Already Being Worked On

The No Man's Heaven file size on disc is simply 6GB co-ordinate to Hello Games founder, Sean Murray.

No Man'due south Sky finally received gold status concluding week, pregnant that the game is being made gear up for press on disc and shipment to retailers.

Now that the take chances survival game is beingness fabricated set up for release next calendar month, creator Sean Murray took to Twitter to share an interesting tidbit – the game's file size on disc.

With over 18 quintillion planets, and i of largest game environments always created, one would expect an enormous file size, but this doesn't seem to be the case. According to Murray, the size is only 6GB and a lot of that space is consumed by the game's audio.

For those asking - size of No Man's Sky on disc is but 6GB. A lot of that is sound (⌐■_■)

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) July ten, 2022

No Man's Sky But 6GB Due To Procedural Generation

How is this possible? Well, most of the content in the game is procedurally generated which results in smaller file sizes, while having big amounts of content. The technique is as well used in the Borderlands series, but besides Minecraft and the Left four Expressionless series employ procedural generation in some way.

No Man's Sky releases next month, but the team is already busy working on the game's first update according to Murray.

Well, waiting for a build to upload really. Actually we're already decorated on Update ane

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) July 10, 2022

No Man'south Sky was kickoff announced back in 2022 and made several E3 appearances. The adventure survival title was beginning presented every bit a PS4 title, merely was later confirmed to be released on PC equally well.

"I actually got in a chip of trouble for saying that nosotros wanted the game to feel really console-y," Murray said. "We've always had PC in mind but in my caput (console-y) means solid frame rate and firsthand controls. I think a PC game can be 'console-y' and it'south intended equally a compliment, but I make it trouble for saying it", Murray told EGDE back in 2022.

No Man's Sky releases on August 9^th for PS4 and PC.