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No Man’s Sky is coming to PC, but it will launch as a timed exclusive for PS4. So has that changed the game in any way? “I actually got in a little bit of trouble for saying that we wanted the game to feel really ‘console-y’,” says Murray. “We’ve always had PC in mind, but in my head [console-y] means solid framerate and immediate controls. I think a PC game can be ‘console-y’, and it’s [intended as] a compliment, but I get in trouble for saying that.” But while Hello always planned for its game to come out on consoles, knowing its lead platform has been useful. “Unlike most games, the actual hardware really affects what we can do,” Murray adds, “in terms of the richness of the worlds and things like that. It isn’t just adding a veneer of resolution, or extra antialiasing options. It has a real effect on what we can actually do in the universe.”