Star Citizen is going to be the next game with a generational legacy.

After fans will their copies to their children, still waiting for the official release.

The bigger context of that quote is basically that they're heads down and preparing for crunch. The person who said, "I don't know if we're going to make it" also said "but we're doing everything we can to make it happen" (this is my paraphrase, I don't know if I got the exact wording)

"The team is heads down," Huckaby said. "We drew a line in the sand when we said 2026. I don't know if we're going to make it, I just know that we're going to do every single thing possible to make it. And part of that is not taking time for the distraction of CitizenCon."

That means they already know they are not going to make it. Otherwise why say this more than one year before?

No Man's Sky has almost every feature that Star Citizen will have/has:

• Frigates
• Walkable ships (via the new corvettes)
• Space stations
• Food/cooking
• Quests and lore
• Planet exploration
• Ship to ship dogfights

Like, by the time SC releases, the game's features will have been done by multiple companies. I expect people actually buying the game, if it's ever released, will do so for the memes and not because the game has anything innovative to add to gaming.

Just 2 years, Turkish!