{"id":122483,"date":"2020-12-24T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/375609"},"modified":"2020-12-24T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T18:40:00","slug":"nier-automata-surpasses-5-million-shipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/nier-automata-surpasses-5-million-shipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Nier: Automata surpasses 5 million shipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"docs-internal-guid-776b5403-7fff-e9a4-6de1-f21f8cf9a676\"><span><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Square Enix and Platinum Games&#8217; <em>Nier: Automata <\/em>has now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NieR_JPN\/status\/1342074832356220928\">surpassed 5 million copies shipped<\/a> and sold digitally since the game first launched on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2017 and on Xbox One in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Helped along by a <em>Game of the YoRha Edition<\/em> re-release last year, Nier has steadily crossed sales milestones over the past few years. It surpassed 3 million shipped in June 2018, 4 million in May 2019, and now 5 million in December 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Square Enix also currently has a remake of <em>Automata<\/em>&nbsp;predecessor dubbed <em>Nier: Replicant <\/em>in the works, currently expected to launch in April 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Square Enix and Platinum Games&#8217; Nier: Automata has now surpassed 5 million copies shipped and sold digitally since the game first launched on PlayStation 4 and PC in 2017 and on Xbox One in 2018. Helped along by a Game of the YoRha Edition re-release last year, Nier has steadily crossed sales milestones over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}