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[SteamSpy] Nier: Automata hit 200k copies in less than 2 weeks
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Xanadu Next is a patched and translated 12 year old PC game that looks more like a 15-17 year old PC game without the low resolution locks that were common then.
New Japanese PC games with concurrent release dates to the console versions usually do well if they are half decent ports (and are good games).
And also had barely any marketing at all. I doubt people that weren't already following Xseed on twitter or somewhere and weren't in the SteamGAF thread even knew it existed.
I love Xseeds Falcom and other older output, but they're really dropping the ball on marketing. And that just doesn't cut it anymore with the amount of (good) games releasing all the damn time.
Port begging is frowned upon.
Abilidebob
Member
Seriously? Here?
GurgleBot20
Member
Great game, well deserved.
Came for the Platinum, stayed for the Taro.
Came for the Platinum, stayed for the Taro.
Sumio Mondo
Member
Wonder where Platinum, Square-Enix, Akihiko Yoshida, Keiichi Okabe (MONACA) and Yoko Taro go from here? New game enters development and they make another game together due to the success or will they all go their separate ways for now and band back together again in the future? Glad to see success for them all though, well deserved, very talented bunch of folks.
Either way, with this success, it'd be silly not to re-release the original NieR in some capacity now.
Either way, with this success, it'd be silly not to re-release the original NieR in some capacity now.
I read this in 2B's voice. It just needed to have ended with "prohibited" instead of frowned upon.
HappehLemons
Member
Okay Square - time to let platinum direct the combat in the next Final Fantasy.
I haven't picked this game up yet, but I'm buying it as soon as I beat Zelda!
I haven't picked this game up yet, but I'm buying it as soon as I beat Zelda!
Avenger54321
Member
Well deserved... Hopefully this also means we get more NieR in the future when Yoko Taro decides to make another story.
Exclusive Fullscreen is busted for most people and there's stuttering in the prerendered cutscenes.
There's a mod that fixes both, and improves performance by changing the CPU cycles. But vanilla performance is not bad at all.
To expand on what Gbraga said, the resolution thing can technically also be fixed by simply running the game in borderless fullscreen mode (which does require an external program, but takes like 5 seconds to set it up the first time and then it's a non-issue).
Wishmaster92
Member
Oh wow this is good for the team. Amazing game
Yeah, seriously.
The OP mentioned it, but I doesn't hurt to say it again:
The games still in the global top sellers on Steam, and the data is from 3 days ago, it should already be a little higher and isn't yet available (officially) in Asia.
Might break 250k at that point.
DealWithIt
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If you launch on PC at the same time as console I will buy PC. It's not hard to figure out, Nevertheless, developers frequently release the PC version later. What that means is that there's a good chance I'll just skip the game. Because there's other stuff to play by the time the PC version is out. Or I will buy the console version on discount. I think PC ports are a future big moneymaker For devs.
How About No
Member
Great news, despite some technical oopsies it's very solid, on top of being one of the best games I've ever played
I can say you'll likely love this as well
I can say you'll likely love this as well
OverturePT
Member
Deserved, the game is fantastic. Hopefully it continues to sell well.
dragonlife
Member
I also loved the first Nier, but Automata just didn't feel as special as the first (at least through the first ending). I'm on the second playthrough, but I've actually been playing other games instead.
I'll probably change my mind as I get more endings, but like I said, compared to the first game, the first go-around didn't feel as special (including sidequests). It's probably because Automata felt like it ended just as it started, whereas Nier felt like a more complete game even on ending 1 (it's been years, though).
The first Nier was my GotY in its year, and this one is my GotY this year (so far).
It does almost everything the first did which made it so special to me (the only things I preferred in the first were
), the main gameplay is significantly more fluid than the first, the shmup sections are much better, and it's nice to play at a locked 1440p/60 FPS rather than 720p30 with drops 
It performs exactly like a PS4 Pro at PS4 Pro settings on a PC as fast as a PS4 Pro.
It does almost everything the first did which made it so special to me (the only things I preferred in the first were
the characters overall and an even higher degree of genre variation
"Bad performance" is actually not a problem with the PC port.
It performs exactly like a PS4 Pro at PS4 Pro settings on a PC as fast as a PS4 Pro.
How About No
Member
Yeh doesn't make sense since first nier ending A wasn't that great.
ArkhamFantasy
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The first Nier was my GotY in its year, and this one is my GotY this year (so far).
It does almost everything the first did which made it so special to me (the only things I preferred in the first were), the main gameplay is significantly more fluid than the first, the shmup sections are much better, and it's nice to play at a locked 1440p/60 FPS rather than 720p30 with dropsthe characters overall and an even higher degree of genre variation
"Bad performance" is actually not a problem with the PC port.
It performs exactly like a PS4 Pro at PS4 Pro settings on a PC as fast as a PS4 Pro.
Do you think its worth switching to UE4 or do you think they should just stick to the engine they have now and try and fix the rough edges?
Their engine costs them "nothing". Though they are using middleware which may or may not have a per unit license fee.
KimonoNoNo
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I honestly think there's political shit going on between the various regional divisions of Sega right now.
Sega US got gutted and merged with Atlus US, who are infamous for mocking of fans asking for PC ports of their games; and Sega EU doesn't want to touch anything thats not from one of their strategy game devs, to the point that Persona "God Damn" 5 is being published by Deep Silver in the region. Sega/Atlus JP call the shots but they only care about Japan domestic market where PC is a non-factor and hold onto their IP like Golum from Lord of the Rings.
That's all to say that whoevers idea it was to kickstart the whole porting of Sega's back catalogue has probably been moved on in one of Sega's recent corporate reorganisations, and have given up hope of anything changing in the near future.
I think that part of the problem you're having is that Nier B is the same as Nier A with added stuff to give you a different perspective, but it's the same game. I'm still on Route A of Automata, but from what I've seen people discussing, the second half of B and the entirety of C is all new content. So it's different from Nier where B was A with new stuff and C and D were exactly like B with different endings. It's more like Drakengard 3, where every branch brings all new story stuff.
When we recommend Nier to someone, we tell them to get the endings because it'll make them appreciate it even more. In Automata, you'll tell people to get the endings because they literally didn't play the entire game with just A+B. And I've seen a lot of people saying that Route C is the best one.
To apply Automata's structure to Nier 1, I believe it would be like ending A was at the time skip, and Route B started after the time skip. I don't even know how the hell you'd apply Route C to Nier 1 with that mentality. And there's even the fact that you play with different characters.
Someone mentioned that there are a bunch of testing branches for the game being updated in the steam database, the chances are good.
They should take their time, though. If it's not at least as good as the fan fixes, all it's gonna do is give them trouble to update the mods we'll still want to use, even if the base game's main issues are fixed.
Abilidebob
Member
They're also updating them at 8-10pm in Japan, so they're doing overtime for it.
Maybe you should finish the game before you make up your mind on it. Automata does routes very differently from NieR.
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
Easy.
Including digital, PS4 Japan is easily over 300,000.
PC worldwide is at 200,000.
I'm confident the rest of the world outside of that can manage 500,000 especially when you include digital.
KimonoNoNo
Member
If anybody is interested GMG has got Nier for 25% off at the moment.
Looking at the current Steamspy figures, the sales numbers are accelerating as word gets out. Nier is very much this years Doom.
Looking at the current Steamspy figures, the sales numbers are accelerating as word gets out. Nier is very much this years Doom.
GhostTrick
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This is the best news; it's a deserving game that should hopefully enjoy a pretty long life on Steam as price drops and sales inevitably kick in.
I think this is actually to some extent intentional--the second playthrough of Nier: Automata feels a lot like it was designed to target people's expectations about what a B route in a Nier game should be. It's by far the worst part of the game (it's not bad, but there's a definite sense of rehash to some of how route B plays out and the combat isn't as fun), but I really do think it's that way in part to play with the expectations of players of the first game.
No specific spoilers, more a thought on how routes A/B/C are meant to be perceived:
I think this is actually to some extent intentional--the second playthrough of Nier: Automata feels a lot like it was designed to target people's expectations about what a B route in a Nier game should be. It's by far the worst part of the game (it's not bad, but there's a definite sense of rehash to some of how route B plays out and the combat isn't as fun), but I really do think it's that way in part to play with the expectations of players of the first game.
No specific spoilers, more a thought on how routes A/B/C are meant to be perceived:
If you've played the first game, you probably spend most of the A play through figuring there's more to the story of machines and expecting route B to delve more into the "adding another cutscene for sad context around the thing you've already done." And it does, so it ends up feeling like a safe-ish retread of the first game at times. Not bad, but basically how you'd expect it to go if Automata was made by an outsider trying to copy the Nier experience.
B sets up most of those expectations, lulls you into a sense of semi-security that you know the story the game is trying to tell, but ends strong and by about five minutes into route C it becomes clear Automata isn't actually just retreading the path the first game forged.
B sets up most of those expectations, lulls you into a sense of semi-security that you know the story the game is trying to tell, but ends strong and by about five minutes into route C it becomes clear Automata isn't actually just retreading the path the first game forged.
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