Sq. Enix and Platinum Video games say that Nier: Automata has offered 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 Collection social media accounts introduced the milestone by sharing a picture celebrating “Over 9 Million International Shipments & Obtain Gross sales” alongside the message “This is not doable with out you.”
It is fairly the testomony to PlatinumGames’ and artistic lead Yoko Taro’s imaginative and prescient of an action-heavy motion RPG with a wildly complicated and at occasions even complicated story. It is 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 shortage of any sequel in sight. It is buoyed long-term by the enthusiastic group of followers round it and the sheer worth of the sport: It is 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 Overview again in 2017, held again greater than something by a fairly lackluster PC port.
Nier: Automata additionally had a fairly well-received anime adaptation that, surprising no-one, unveiled but extra secret lore and endings that contain the sport itself.
