So in the midst of the hype i have been wondering how big the planets are in comparison to earth, i know that it does not really matter since there will be a near infinite number to explore, and there will never be a shortage of things to see and do.
Based on gameplay videos where the ship enters the atmosphere and and based on how soon you see the curvature of the planets as you take off with the ship from the ground, they seen pretty tiny by planet standards, like really tiny.
Someone made a scale estimate based on the time it takes to walk from different landmarks in the geography, it's a rough estimate that is based partially on guesswork, but it is still somewhat accurate.
http://imgur.com/gallery/0fffW
The planet measured in his analysis is 3.3 miles in diameter, earth by comparison is 7917,5 miles in diameter and tiny pluto is 1475 miles.
The planets in are "compressed" in order to keep them intresting, if the planets where to "realistic" scale they would either have to be packed with thousands of points of interest or everything would be spaced so far between that exploring the planets would be a slow and tedious slog, i like the bite sized planets that hello games went for instead.
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