Yeah it certainly has massive potential, like you mention, Minecraft was an empty shell once upon a time, the beauty of games like Minecraft and No Man Sky is that it is SO easy to add content that massively increases the depth, and fun of the game. You already have an infinite randomly generated world as a base, so you can just focus on adding features and expanding the variety and content in the world. You can make a few little changes, and then that change can be dispersed randomly over the entire universe.

I played minecraft in its beginning. It was far from an empty shell.
It got its content from you being abe to build almost anything. It made amazing use of its players creativity.

What does NMS have that could tap into player crativity? A crafting and mining system doesn't make it any similar to minecraft if you can't be creative yourself in it.
I'm sure NMS has a different appeal than player creativity, just saing that it's not, and probably never will be a minecraft. Because it's fundamentally different.

No way. Its far too expensive compared to Minecraft and it would have to sell over 100m units.

This game never really interested me in the slightes, but if they add just a part of what yu said, then I am in.

WHat are you talking about, this game started as a 4 man team and dint expand to like 20 until after sony got their hands on and was nearly complete by then. Its alll random gererated stuff so its not as hard as current games. Yes its still a risk and will cost, but not as much as you think and there is potential.

The first time I saw minecraft was a short youtube video without any fancy sound or nice camera angles. Probably no editing at all, actually ^^ The player spawned, walked up to a tree and punched out a block. Walked towards a small hill, punched out a dirt block. Then he placed those blocks back on the ground. I lost my shit, I was convinced that this would be a maaaaaaaaassive hit and I bought it right away. Spent thousands of hours on it (mods kept it going for me, singleplayer vanilla just got lonely :c)

No Man's Sky has nothing of that at this moment, and its already out. This isn't the alpha, this is 1.0 (and beyond). They'd have to add another game's worth of content on top of it to reach Minecraft levels of success, IMO. And probably cut the price in half, at least ^^ Minecraft's low price helped a lot.

It won't surpass minecraft. Its less child-friendly and it also has a ton of negativity on the internet, reviews that where made last week will still influence sales down the line, it launched with almost no content, sure, they can make this game great but at the time it finally reaches that peak many players who tried it at the beginning or where hyped will have long stopped caring about this game.

Minecraft also runs on almost anything, tablets, old generation consoles even the PSVita version (which sold well).

Its going to be a long-burner and have success with patches and DLC but in the end minecraft is untouchable for no mans sky.

That analogy/prediction doesn't make any sense.

(see some posts above for the exact reasons)

Saying this game will surpass Minecradt a game that haa sold over 100m units is like also saying it will surpass COD,GTA,Pokemon, Wii Sports at $60 i just cant see it happening.

Nope. In a year, nobody will care about NMS anymore while Minecraft will still sell like crazy.