Fergal Gara, PlayStation's UK chief, has indicated that Sony will be throwing their full backing behind prominent indie games such as Hello Games' No Man's Sky. Speaking with MCV Gara said:
"No Man's Sky has been treated as if it was from one of our internal studios. We have been working very closely with the developers and bringing it into our release programme as if we had made it. 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."
He continued: "It, along with other indie games, could even be released in a box. These days we think increasingly of a game being a game, whether it is digital, physical or both. It is more about making the right decision for the right title at the right time. 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."
No Man's Sky has been very much the indie darling since its initial announcement. For more details you can read about it here and here. The exciting sci-fi universe currently being developed by Hello Games is set to release first on PlayStation 4, and it has been confirmed that it'll follow afterwards on PC.