{"id":130080,"date":"2022-11-26T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141734"},"modified":"2022-11-26T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:30:00","slug":"nier-automata-sales-soar-to-seven-million-following-switch-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/26\/nier-automata-sales-soar-to-seven-million-following-switch-release\/","title":{"rendered":"NieR: Automata Sales Soar To Seven Million Following Switch Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/97216927edb95\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/97216927edb95\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"NieR Automata\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/97216927edb95\/nier-automata.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/97216927edb95\/nier-automata.900x.jpg\" alt=\"NieR Automata\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the many third-party highlights on the Switch this year was Platinum&#8217;s action role-playing game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nierautomata_the_end_of_yorha_edition\">NieR: Automata<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following this title&#8217;s release in October, Square Enix has provided an update for the lifetime sales of NieR &#8211; revealing the combined amount of sales total of seven million units (this includes digital sales and physical shipments).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/nier_jpn\/statuses\/1596071191579533312 @ 2022-11-27T07:41:48+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\uff1c\u5168\u4e16\u754c\u7d2f\u8a08\u51fa\u8377\uff06\u30c0\u30a6\u30f3\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u8ca9\u58f2\u672c\u6570\uff1e<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%BF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30cb\u30fc\u30a2\u30aa\u30fc\u30c8\u30de\u30bf<\/a> \u304c\u3010700\u4e07\u672c\u3011<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30cb\u30fc\u30a2\u30ec\u30d7\u30ea\u30ab\u30f3\u30c8<\/a> ver.1.22 \u304c\u3010150\u4e07\u672c\u3011\u3092<br \/>\u305d\u308c\u305e\u308c\u7a81\u7834\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u5909\u308f\u3089\u306c\u30b5\u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u3053\u308c\u304b\u3089\u3082\u3001\u3088\u308d\u3057\u304f\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFDik5b2fb\">pic.twitter.com\/YFDik5b2fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 NieR\u516c\u5f0fPR\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@NieR_JPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NieR_JPN\/status\/1596071191579533312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As of June 2022, the game had sold around 6.5 million copies, so the recent Switch release has no doubt contributed to these sales. In our Nintendo Life review, we awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nierautomata_the_end_of_yorha_edition\">NieR: Automata The End of YorHa<\/a> 9 out of 10 stars, calling it a modern classic, and a top-notch Switch port:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:138373 @ 2022-11-27T07:05:58+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"O4v-ia_qhCE\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Have you picked up a copy of this title on the Switch yet? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Square Enix One of the many third-party highlights on the Switch this year was Platinum&#8217;s action role-playing game NieR: Automata. Following this title&#8217;s release in October, Square Enix has provided an update for the lifetime sales of NieR &#8211; revealing the combined amount of sales total of seven million units (this includes digital sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130080","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=130080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}