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derpysquirtle64 said:

shikamaru317 said:

This is definitely a positive sign for Square Enix support moving forward, it is looking like they might just support Xbox with releases unless Sony specifically pays them to skip Xbox, ala Final Fantasy. Hopefully Sony doesn't hat any more of Square's bigger releases moving forward, hopefully KH4, DQ12, and the 3rd Nier game that they are making will all remain multiplat day one, with only Final Fantasy being timed hatted by Sony out of Square's 4 biggest franchises.

Now we just need them to actually give us late ports on some of the prior titles that skipped Xbox, specifically I really want to see FF7R part 1 and Trials of Mana remake on Xbox personally. Come on Xbox, hat us some ports of those via a day one Gamepass deal.

Third NieR game is not being money hatted for sure. Because it isn't happening.

Pretty sure it is. I distinctly remember speculation that Square Enix was creating an internal Nier studio after Nier Automata released and way outsold Square's predictions, because there were Square Enix job listings for Nier in 2017 after Nier Automata released, not positions at external studios but internal hiring for Nier. Yoko Taro has also teased new Nier games at multiple points in those end of the year developer quotes that Japan does every year, and I'm pretty sure some of those teases were after Nier Reincarnation and Nier Replicant remake both released (neither of which was developed by an internal Nier team that Square developed, both were developed by external developers rather than an internal Square team, Toylogic did Nier Remake while Applibot did Nier Reincarnation). 

Nier Automata way outsold Square Enix's internal predictions, it is now at 7.5m copies as of 2023, making it Square's 8th highest selling game of all-time, and the 2nd highest selling Square game that isn't in the Final Fantasy series, only behind Space Invaders. Meanwhile the remake of Nier 1 sold 1.5m copies by 1.5 years after it released, 3x more copies then than the original release of Nier sold lifetime, and the remake will surely move at least 2m copies lifetime. Square would be foolish to not have Yoko Taro developing a 3rd main game in the franchise with sales that high.

Sources

2017 internal Square Enix hiring for Nier series

2021 hiring for Nier after Nier Replicant Remake and Nier Reincarnation both released

2021 end of the year joking by Taro and the rest of the Nier team that the series is dead unless Square gives them a big enough pile of money to keep making it (this is Taro's style of humor)

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 27 May 2023