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NieR:Automata Celebrates 4 Years and 5.5 Million Copies Sold

2B and 9S confront A2 in a desolate industrial zone in a scene from the NieR:Automata video game for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.

 

NieR:Automata, the critically acclaimed sequel to NieR:Replicant, has hit a double-milestone and is celebrating both its 4 year anniversary and some 5.5 million physical and digital copies sold for PlayStation 4, Steam, and Xbox One.

 

 

Developed by PlatinumGames, directed by Yoko Taro, and published by Square Enix in 2017, NieR:Automata is an alternate-reality sequel set in the universe of the Drakengard game series. Square Enix describes the story fo NieR:Automata as follows:

 

Humanity has been driven from the Earth by mechanical beings from another world. In a final effort to take back the planet, the human resistance sends a force of android soldiers to destroy the invaders. Now, a war between machines and androids rages on... A war that could soon unveil a long-forgotten truth of the world.

 

NieR:Replicant ver.1.22474487139, an updated version of NieR:Replicant, will be published in Japan and the United States on April 23, 2021.

 

Source: Anime! Anime!

 

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