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Nier Automata Steam - Schrödinger's Release Date
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MetalliCabombination
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Any real confirmation so far?
Experimenter
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Nope, still nothing
Shadowhaxor
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I'm late on this, but the press stuff I got from Square Enix does, in fact show Steam on the NA trailer. I've reached out to my SE rep for clarification.
Yes that's what I meant, because the AF even on Pro is pretty mediocre and the aliasing on stuff like cables is pretty noticeable.
What a mess this is.
I certainly hope the PC release is 2017-03-10 but I don't even trust a trailer released by Square-Enix at this point.
I would have expected the Steam to be up by now to take pre-orders if it's due out that soon.
I certainly hope the PC release is 2017-03-10 but I don't even trust a trailer released by Square-Enix at this point.
I would have expected the Steam to be up by now to take pre-orders if it's due out that soon.
Well Platinum doesn't have a stellar record on PC, so I wouldn't put it past them.
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was locked to 1080p60 max, and would output 1080p24 if you were using HDMI - though this can now be fixed with mods.
- Transformers: Devastation supported 1080p and 4K but nothing in-between or above it (I now play quite a few games at 8K) and it was still locked to 60 FPS.
- TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan was locked to 30 FPS and required hex editing to fix it - one of the things you wouldn't be able to do if the game was protected by Denuvo.
I am not stuck in anything. As I said, I'm not American, I'm European. I'm not even a native English speaker. I was just providing the reason why the date is written like that, which is something that was set way before our time.
I don't see why some people take so much offense to this. I'm not even defending the format.
Then why is it said that way in the US?
Force of habit, I suppose. The pilgrims said it like that, and it carried on.
Garmonbozia
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Here's hoping that my semi-toaster PC can run it.
Heh, that's what I tried.
fluffydelusions
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Awesome
Im only joking dude... because you wrote 2016, when its actually 2017.
thats the part that scares me
Nothing confirmed yet, sadly.
I checked All Square-Enix and Platinum on Steam :]
Battlechili
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I figure this is just SE being awful at marketing, sort of like how for a while after KT announced Atelier Firis for PC no one believed them since they made no mention of it.
SE has a bad habit of putting games on PC all of a sudden without any marketing or advertisement for it.
SE has a bad habit of putting games on PC all of a sudden without any marketing or advertisement for it.
Vigilant Walrus
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I hope it comes. Seems Nioh isn't coming to Steam so it would be nice if this game was.
Mango Positive
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If we want to apply a similar, but different and more appealing logic, the date is displayed in order of pool-size. Months? 12. Least amount of options. Days? Between 28 and 31. More days than months. Years? There are virtually infinite years!
So we have smallest bracket > medium bracket > largest bracket.
Or translated for food-pyramid folk:
12
31
2016
Possumowner
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Marvellous,need to clear some backlog before Nier hits pc
It's 100% certain that it's coming.
The only thing unclear (and it really seems like S-E wants it to be unclear at this point) is when.
Kenzodielocke
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Will this have PS4 render videos? They are, for whatever weird reason, only 900p, on Pro, too.
I think you can answer this question above?
I think you can answer this question above?
MiamiWesker
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Month/day/year for life. It's the most efficient way to get info from a date. The day number is totally worthless alone, 17, ok 17 of what? The first number is then useless. A month puts you in the perfect frame of time, 3 is March, boom now I know it's in March, that's good info. Usually you know what year the date you are looking for is in, so that's kind of useless info unless you are doing something dealing with records. So month is more important to know first before the day number, so it's better to have that number right at the start.
Of course it's just what you are used to. How do people say dates in other places. Here we usually say March 3rd, or May 20th. Do other places say the 5th of May... that just sounds weird.
Of course it's just what you are used to. How do people say dates in other places. Here we usually say March 3rd, or May 20th. Do other places say the 5th of May... that just sounds weird.
Experimenter
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That video wasn't uploaded buy SE and the video that was uploaded by them didn't include Steam in the end.
The history of the communication of this release date makes it hard to be sure of anything.
Beacuse the trailer from the SE pressportal uploaded by Gematsu is the only one mentioning it.
Their social media accounts as well as the version uploaded on all official SE/NieR portals don't.
Mister Wolf
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Gimme that 60+ framerate platinum.
paperspace
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Not really.
It's a very unclear situation, and that theory isn't unreasonable given the information we have; since it does Square Enix literally no favors being quiet about it.
Yes, it was. The trailer with the steam date comes from their press release.
Their official YT channels don't have the steam part. Their press kit download video does.
daitoqu
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Not exactly. The video with Steam logo and date was also uploaded by SE but only as asset for press.
Avenger54321
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I really wish Square will just announce the steam release. I'm planning on double dipping for both PC and PS4 and it will help to know what the release date is. This is the most confusing marketing for a game I have ever seen.
If that happens then the question remains of why S-E was (and still is, just look at their trailer upload variety) hell-bent on keeping that fact from the public.
You'd think they want people to know when they can buy their game.
It is. And I am still flabbergasted as to why.
Sylverstone14
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Finally. Guess I'll also pick this up if I'm not already consumed by Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
I already bought Furi tho
That said, I must know how this saga ends.
Am mostly hoping for a reasonable PC release date as I too was planning to double dip had things gone awry.
DalikSkywing
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DAY ONE BITCHESSSS
EDIT: ffs really
EDIT: ffs really
No way.
Sony knows that what matters most is the general perception. And developers / producers know that a good part of the equation is a potent marketing campaign.
To pay the global marketing campaign of a thirdparty game in exchange of omitting the competition versions in that campaign is an agreement that has been done many times.
From the point of view of the developer / producer, it makes no sense to omit versions in their trailers. Please think objectively about it.
I've said it before, Square is is bordering on the shit tier when it comes to the PC platform.
We had a thread about this bullshit recently!
The fuck is going on?
Fredrik
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Sony must've payed for it to appear like an exclusive with no mention of the PC version being a part of the deal.
Rise of the Tomb Raider had a similar silent period.
Sony doesnt have to pay for exclusivity for this game, come on now. Platinum already were not making it for XBox anyway. As far as we know there is no Sony deal anywhere.
If anything, it would be SE pushing the PC date back so they could acquire double dippers
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