No Man's Sky PlayStation 4 PS4

If you ever had any doubt about the importance of PlayStation 4 indie No Man's Sky, SCEUK boss Fergal Gara has told MCV that the organisation will be putting its full weight behind the title. "The game has been treated as if it was from one of our internal studios," he said as part of a wide ranging interview.

"We have been working very closely with the developers and bringing it into our release programme as if we had made it," he continued. "We are not going to treat it any differently and we are going to put the full weight of PlayStation behind it. If it all comes together as well as expected, it will be treated like a first-party release; it is not a self-published small indie title on the platform."

Such is the importance of the game that Gara believes that a retail release could happen, but he also entertained the possibility of the platform holder putting together some indie title bundles. "It is entirely possible that we will release some of these games together, digitally and physically, or one after another, but it will be decided on a title-by-title basis," he concluded.

Sony's actually packaged a handful of its digital titles together at retail in the past: the Journey Collector's Edition is one example, but engaged readers may recall the Best of PlayStation Network, Vol. 1, which collated Sound Shapes, When Vikings Attack, Tokyo Jungle, and Fat Princess on one Blu-ray. Bizarrely, there never was a Vol. 2 to the series.

[source mcvuk.com]