Yoko Taro’s NieR: Automata is actually one of the vital beloved JRPGs of the previous decade, and it has simply achieved a brand new gross sales milestone.
In keeping with an announcement on X (previously Twitter), the sport has offered 8 million copies worldwide (extra exactly, the mixture of bodily shipments to retailers and digital gross sales), which is most positively an ideal achievement that not many have doubtless seen coming seven years in the past. It is an replace from the 7.5 million copies in April 2023.
The sport is in truth celebrating its seventh anniversary, having launched in Japan on February 23, 2017. Western players needed to wait somewhat longer, because it was launched on March 7 in North America and March 10 in Europe. This was really slightly peculiar, as seven years in the past Sq. Enix already launched most of its video games concurrently worldwide.
NieR: Automata is presently accessible for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Swap, and PC. It was initially a PS4 unique, however over time it expanded to different platforms, actually reaping the advantages by way of recognition.
Followers have been ready for some information in regards to the collection for fairly some time, and some months in the past Producer Yosuke Saito teased a “shock” and a “huge announcement” probably coming within the early a part of 2024.
This comes after he expressed confidence earlier in 2023 that Yoko Taro would do one other NieR recreation in some unspecified time in the future, promising to seek out the finances for it when that occurs.
Should you’re fascinated about NieR: Automata, now you can expertise its protagonist 2B in a very totally different approach due to her current inclusion as a DLC visitor character in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, a part of what seems to be a really lively quest to place her into just about each recreation in existence.
Contemplating that I like 2B, this isn’t a criticism.