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NieR: Automata Game's Worldwide Digital Sales, Shipments Exceed 1 Million
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
NieR:Automata action RPG's worldwide shipment and digital sales of the game have exceeded one million.
Developer Taro Yoko Twitter on Tuesday.
The game Steam on March 17.
Square Enix describes the story:
The distant future…Invaders from another world attack without warning, unleashing a new type of threat: weapons known as “machine lifeforms.” In the face of this insurmountable threat, mankind is driven from Earth and takes refuge on the Moon.
The Council of Humanity organizes a resistance of android soldiers in an effort to take back their planet. To break the deadlock, the Resistance deploys a new unit of android infantry: YoRHa . In the forsaken wasteland below, the war between the machines and the androids rages on.
A war that is soon to unveil the long-forgotten truth of this world...
The game is a follow-up to the 2010 NieR game, and reunited the director, producer, and composer. Freelance developer Taro Yoko (sang a version of the game's theme song.
Yoko is also SINoALICE iOS and Android smartphone game. The game is slated to launch this spring.
[Via Siliconera]
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