Xbox One owners are still left in the dark with any news on a No Man's Sky release. All evidence suggests that Gamescom will finally give gamers the answer they deserve, but might not necessarily want.
Sources close to Sony have confirmed that they have been in active discussion with Hello Games to acquire the studio but attempts have failed due to their difference in opinion with future of the intellectual property.
Sony had allegedly approached Hello Games shortly before their big debut in the 2013 VGA awards and negotiations had gone quite smoothly until Sony requested that No Man's Sky would be exclusively released only on PlayStation consoles. This contrasted with the developers initial plans for the game and would ultimately undo a lot of progress they had made on PC. Development initially began on PC in early 2013 and a console version was not in the plans until publisher like Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft started showing interest in the project.
Despite Sony not securing the developer, our sources are confident that a console exclusivity deal, similar to Transistor, has been agreed to which will guarantee that No Man's Sky will remain a console exclusive on the PlayStation. We heard that terms of deal demanded that development lead would shift to the PlayStation 4. Sean Murray of Hello Games has reportedly being working closely with Sony owned Media Molecule, though this only suggests that Hello Games are interested in working with a developer that has experience working with the PlayStation platform this certainly bodes well for the relationship between Sony and Hello Games and gives a little weight to the rumors.
We are expecting Sony to shed more light on the reported console exclusivity deal at their press event at Gamescom later this week.