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NieR: Automata shipments and digital sales top 4 million
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Awesome! Still pick up and play a few hours here and there once a week/every couple weeks, and have done pretty much since release, love the game.
If he re-teams with PG (or another respected studio) and it's a good game? Why not? They're gonna be saying it's from Automata's director at every opportunity regardless of who makes it.
If I'm not completely misremembering they were just hiring for scenario writers and planners to support Yoko Taro since he can't handle all the stories in the actual games plus all the collaborations he's involved in now on his own.
It's nothing short of incredible how well this game has done, both sales and reception wise.
Taro deserves it.
Taro deserves it.
SE is even getting Yoko Taro to make a series of Automata 24-man dungeons in their MMO. They defo think he has the Midas touch now lol.
What's funny is that to get Automata greenlit, Yosuke Saito had to threaten Square-Enix by saying he would quit if they wouldn't let Yoko Taro make another game.
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I bought it because of the 'plot'.
I can't wait to see 600k polygons next gen asses.
The game did another 500k in the last 5 months? Damn those are some incredible thighs legs.
I don't know about Switch sales but Bayonetta 1 and 2 didn't really do well when they were originally released.
I bought it 1 or 2 years after release for 2€ in Germany, but maybe it did well in other markets.
Bayonetta was at 1,5 million in 2010. With the added PC, Wii U en Switch sales added on top, it should have sold a fair bit. Probably not 4 million though.
Just platinumed this game probably the best game ive ever played tbh no i wont get a tattooo :p got enough of those haha. Glad it sold so well hopefully it peaks at 5m as that seems like a nice milestone number it should be possible!
I guess Yosuke Saito won't have to convince Yoko Taro to not leave the game dev business for the fourth time.
I've never understood the fixation some people have on remakes. It's understandable when we're talking about an old game or of previous generation which there would really be enough space to work on a remaster, but a 2 year old game like Automata, and people mention "Oh please bring me a remaster", like WTF, how about a new title? Why should funds go to the remaster of a 2 freaking years old game when it can be put into making a brand new Nier title. I've always read posts that ask for remasters of 2-3 year old games of the current generation that it makes me angry.
People talking about remasters in this thread are probably talking about the original NieR, which was released almost a decade ago.
I bought the GotY addition yesterday in PSN. Maybe I was number 4 million. 😀
Really enjoying it so far.
Really enjoying it so far.
BECOME AS GODS
Congrats to Yoko Taro and everyone involved. Still think about this game regularly.
Congrats to Yoko Taro and everyone involved. Still think about this game regularly.
I just bought it last week and finished it Sunday, and wowww I was sleeping on this game, maybe my new favorite ever! It's never too late for people like us!
It would make sense if so, but hasn't been specified. And like I said, this is not the only case.
Square Enix deserve a lot of credit too. They supported Yoko Taro and his special games for quite some time.
Please let that be one of the e3 reveals at the square enix conference.
I was thinking about Nier 3 the other day, it's pretty obvious that Platinum games is not working on the next Nier game and Square Enix is probably making it themselves, the only reason i can think that they would do this is because they're going to dramatically increase the budget of the game and give it the type of production values you'd expect from a AAA Square Enix, something that Platinum isn't really known for.
That's really the only reason i can think of to take Platinum off the project.
That's really the only reason i can think of to take Platinum off the project.
Massive achievement for such a modest production. Breaking the graphics barrier.
Not just the graphics, though. The whole game is dated in a way. You can say it's a real videogame's videogame. Feels like a PS2 game sometimes.
I'm delighted to see this underdog take its place among the heavy hitters of this generation.
Not just the graphics, though. The whole game is dated in a way. You can say it's a real videogame's videogame. Feels like a PS2 game sometimes.
I'm delighted to see this underdog take its place among the heavy hitters of this generation.
A Nier game -
Sold far above all expectations, managing to impress Square Enix, the king of overestimations
Saved Platinum from a string of failures and cancellations
Reviewed very well
Is generally considered one of the best games of the generation
Weird timeline. I hope we see Taros next project at E3. I'll be down for whatever he does.
Sold far above all expectations, managing to impress Square Enix, the king of overestimations
Saved Platinum from a string of failures and cancellations
Reviewed very well
Is generally considered one of the best games of the generation
Weird timeline. I hope we see Taros next project at E3. I'll be down for whatever he does.
There's been threads, but basically the shipments have translated to sales and the game's officially surpassed 4 million copies sold:
I have played it four times now, last time just recently in linux :)
If anything it gets better...
Lot's of subtle things you don't catch the first time.
Taro will have all the alcohol he wants to write more tales with these sales!
I'm definitely considering dropping this game, double-dipping it and playing on Linux. does that major fix mod work fine? You just drop it in?
