PlatinumGames has announced that its beloved action RPG, Nier Automata, officially passed the 10 million global shipments and download sales mark.
The announcement came early this morning on the Square Enix YouTube channel, which posted a retrospective of the title over what has almost been a decade. Nier Automata was originally released for the PS4 and PC back in 2017, with an Xbox One version released a year later and a Nintendo Switch port landing in 2022.
You can check out the official video below:
Nier: Automata is a sequel to the 2010 title Nier, which itself was a spin-off of the Drakenguard series by PlatinumGames back on the PS2. The game places players in the midst of a war between machine aliens and androids, as the former attempt to take Earth back from the latter so that the few humans who remain can come out of hiding.
The game features both hack-and-slash gameplay and RPG elements, requiring you to play through the story multiple times from different perspectives to understand and see the full story. As of February 2024, Nier: Automata had sold over 8 million copies, reaching over 9 million by December 2025, averaging an impressive 1 million copies per year over the past two years.
Even with this success, no sequel has been announced, though a remaster of the original was released in 2021 and titled Replicant ver.1.22474487139. The remaster has shipped 1.5 million copies worldwide as of 2022, serving as even more proof that fans are craving anything they can get their hands on for the series.
