According to SteamSpy, NieR: Automata on PC via Steam has 511,885 owners, with 114,480 players playing just in the last two weeks. Other SteamSpy stats reveal that yesterday the peak concurrent players was 2,181, and that over 50 new YouTube videos were uploaded for the game, showing a decently healthy post-launch heartbeat.
For those that don’t know: NieR: Automata is a PlatinumGames (who you may recognize from the Bayonetta series or Vanquish) developed and Square Enix published game that hit PS4 in Japan on February 2017, before hitting the same console in the West in early March. It then arrived on PC on March 17th, which means that in a little over four months the title has moved 500,000 plus units on just the PC.
We know that as of May 29th, the game had shipped (not sold) 1.5 million copies worldwide, which very well could now be almost 2 million, if not more than 2 million.
NieR: Automata, the sequel to 2010’s NieR (a spinoff of the Drakengard series) is available on PC and PS4.
Source Dualshockers.com
Url: http://www.dualshockers.com/nier-automata-passes-500000-copies-sold-steam/
Anyway this is great news for such a niche game. Sales like these might inspire other Japanese studios to also make and release games like these in the West since there is obviously a market for them. Congratulations platinum and square the sales are great and well deserved and hopefully you will make a third installment I enjoyed the second.
Please excuse my (probally) poor grammar
