No Man's Sky Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Available as Free Upgrade Alongside Console Launch, Supports Cross-Save and Cross-Play

A Switch 2 Edition for No Man's Sky volition beryllium disposable alongside the motorboat of Nintendo's caller console, developer Hello Games has announced.

This mentation volition travel arsenic a escaped upgrade for existent No Man's Sky owners, and connection a scope of improvements specified arsenic afloat multiplayer, high-res texture support, and improvements to solution and frame-rate.

No Man's Sky connected Switch 2 besides offers cross-save and cross-play, truthful you tin prime up precisely wherever you near disconnected connected Switch 1 — oregon elsewhere.

Hello Games has said the Switch 2 mentation of its palmy sci-fi escapade endurance crippled is the merchandise of 12 month's enactment getting to grips with Nintendo's caller hardware, aft receiving improvement kits a twelvemonth ago.

This caller mentation arrives alongside (and, unsurprisingly, besides contains) the latest large update for No Man's Sky, entitled Beacons. This overhauls settlements and adds municipality absorption to the game, with immoderate astonishing caller features.

Alongside caller homesteads to discover, you'll beryllium capable to go politician of aggregate locations. This volition fto you plan hangout locations specified arsenic bars oregon sportfishing ponds, support your towns from attack, and adjacent get progressive successful the lives of your settlers, welcoming them successful and helping them resoluteness disputes.

Beacons launches arsenic a escaped update connected each No Man's Sky platforms today, up of the game's Switch 2 mentation launching tomorrow, June 5.

Nintendo has a swathe of Switch 2 Editions besides acceptable to get tomorrow, though immoderate of these volition request paying for, portion others (Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) besides travel included with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.

Today, Nintendo has released an array of updates to existing Switch 1 games successful readiness for them to beryllium played connected Switch 2. For some, specified arsenic Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, this means improved visuals connected erstwhile moving connected Nintendo's caller console. For others, specified arsenic Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, this includes enactment for GameShare sessions.

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