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 line with an announcement on X (previously Twitter), the sport has bought 8 million copies worldwide (extra exactly, the mix of bodily shipments to retailers and digital gross sales), which is most undoubtedly an ideal achievement that not many have possible seen coming seven years in the past. It is an replace from the 7.5 million copies in April 2023.
The sport is actually celebrating its seventh anniversary, having launched in Japan on February 23, 2017. Western avid gamers needed to wait a bit of longer, because it was launched on March 7 in North America and March 10 in Europe. This was really fairly 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 Change, and PC. It was initially a PS4 unique, however through the years it expanded to different platforms, actually reaping the advantages when it comes to recognition.
Followers have been ready for some information concerning the collection for fairly some time, and some months in the past Producer Yosuke Saito teased a “shock” and a “huge announcement” presumably 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 sooner or later, promising to seek out the finances for it when that occurs.
In case you’re involved in NieR: Automata, now you can expertise its protagonist 2B in a totally totally different method because of her latest inclusion as a DLC visitor character in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, a part of what seems to be a really energetic quest to place her into just about each recreation in existence.
Contemplating that I like 2B, this isn’t a criticism.