Square Enix and Platinum Games say that Nier: Automata has bought greater than 9 million copies, that means that the androids-on-robots post-apocalypse is extra well-liked than ever and going sturdy eight years after it first launched.
The NieR Series social media accounts introduced the milestone by sharing a picture celebrating “Over 9 Million Global Shipments & Download Sales” alongside the message “This is not attainable with out you.”
It’s fairly the testomony to PlatinumGames’ and inventive lead Yoko Taro’s imaginative and prescient of an action-heavy motion RPG with a wildly advanced and at instances even complicated story. It’s a sequence that is clearly a labor of affection, with the producer insisting it’s going to proceed so long as Taro is alive to work on it.
And, clearly, there’s demand for Nier with the sport promoting many thousands and thousands of copies now regardless of the dearth of any sequel in sight. It’s buoyed long-term by the enthusiastic neighborhood of followers round it and the sheer worth of the sport: It’s a type of that retains serving up new content material and secret endings whilst you play dozens extra hours and end it time and again.
Nier: Automata clocked a 79% PC Gamer Review again in 2017, held again greater than something by a reasonably lackluster PC port.
Nier: Automata additionally had a reasonably well-received anime adaptation that, stunning no-one, unveiled but extra secret lore and endings that contain the sport itself.
