Nier: Automata has bought 7.5 million copies and there is nonetheless no signal of a sequel

2017’s Nier: Automata is a tremendous videogame, a kind of whose legend has slowly grown through the years as extra gamers uncover its labyrinthine, looping construction and the numerous weird and tragic parts that make up this singular universe. Six years on from launch, the official Twitter account has shared the welcome information that the game, usually described as a cult traditional or related, has bought a exceptional 7.5 million copies.

“Plainly 7.5 million copies have been bought,” wrote sequence creator Yoko Taro (through machine translation). “It is so superior that it makes me dizzy. I can not exceed this quantity for the remainder of my life… I can solely thank everybody who supported me…!”

Subsequent to Taro’s regular pronouncements, that comes throughout as fairly candy.

So… sequel when? Or a brand new Nier game? Followers have been determined to know for years, whereas Taro jokes that he’d do “something for cash” and the following Nier game may come out tomorrow or in 35 years. There was a cellular game in 2021 alongside a remastered model of the unique Nier, however no new Nier game for PC or consoles has been introduced by Sq. Enix regardless that the sequence does stay energetic: an anime based mostly on Automata premiered in Japan earlier this 12 months.

As for his present initiatives, Taro says he is taking a much less hands-on function than he as soon as did, reasoning that the video games will end up higher if “this aged man was solely vaguely, loosely related to them.” Such self-deprecation is typical of Taro, who likes to joke round and tease Nier followers.

Nier: Automata continues to take pleasure in fairly the afterlife. Followers found a secret that had lay hidden within the game for 5 years, a discover that solely deepened the urge for food for what else it might comprise, which might be what impressed some hoaxers to invent a brand new thriller that shortly bought out of hand.