"We got there in the end": No Man's Sky dev says sorry "it took so long" to add customizable ships to the Switch 1 version, but optimizing things enough "was a difficult technical challenge"

No Man's Sky screenshot shows a figure looking at a corvette flying in the distance.

No Man's Sky's recent Remnant update added a whole host of exciting stuff from a gravity gun to a spider mech, but for Switch users, the biggest win comes in the form of the Voyagers update's customizable ships finally being available on Nintendo's previous-generation hardware.

Corvettes were first added to No Man's Sky late last August, but last week's Remnant upgrade has now brought them to Nintendo Switch, too. It's not that Switch users have been forgotten up to this point, but as engine programmer Martin Griffiths explains, the delay is the result of a "difficult technical challenge" that the devs have clearly only just been able to solve.