Square Enix has revealed – via its Japanese support site – that NieR Automata will be coming to the PC on March 17th. In addition, Square Enix has unveiled the official PC requirements for this brand new title.
According to the official specs, PC gamers will at least need a modern-day dual-core CPU with 4GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (VRAM 2GB) or an AMD Radeon R9 270X (VRAM 2GB).
Square Enix recommends an Intel Core i5 4670 or an AMD A10-7850K with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (VRAM 4GB) or an AMD Radeon R9 380X (VRAM 4GB).
Here are the full PC requirements for NieR Automata.
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 64-bit / Windows 8.1 64-bit / Windows 10 64-bit (32-bit OS not supported)
- CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 or higher, AMD A8-6500 or higher
- Memory: 4GB or higher free space
- Hard-Disk / SSD: 50GB or higher
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or higher / AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB or higher
- Sound Card: DirectX 11 or higher
- Communication Environment: Broadband or higher
- Screen Resolution: 1280×720
- DirectX: DirectX 11
- Other: Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad (XInput-only)
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit / Windows 10 64-bit (32-bit OS not supported)
- CPU: Intel Core i5 4670 or higher, AMD A10-7850K or higher
- Memory: 8GB or higher free space
- Hard-Disk / SSD: 50GB or higher
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VRAM 4GB or higher / AMD Radeon R9 380X VRAM 4GB or higher
- Sound Card: DirectX 11 or higher
- Communication Environment: Broadband or higher
- Screen Resolution: 1920×1080
- DirectX: DirectX 11
- Other: Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad (XInput-only)
It remains to be seen whether the North American and European release dates for the PC version of NieR Automata will be similar to the Japanese one.
UPDATE:
The game will be released worldwide on March 17th!
https://twitter.com/NieRGame/status/837437370903339008
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The last game that recommended a GTX 980 was Batman Arkham Knight (and it was for Ultra settings, not even a basic 1080p60), if I’m not wrong
Hopefully them having the screen resolution in recommended doesn’t mean the game is locked to that resolution. Platinum Games has been known to not support over 1080p or support just a few certain resolutions in their games.
I fit the boll with my 4670k and 980, but why on earth do they want a GTX 980 for a console port?. The vast majority of these consoles ports come loaded with nearly identical textures, so why is the 4gb VRAM needed?.
Something tells me that it’s a busted port job.
It has been stated a few times that the game has been developed for PC first.
Hopefully it really shows with the GTX 980.
Yay!! This game looks like a lot of fun!
Thanks for the good news!
“Here is a bunch of sh*te you get if you pre order”
“You can’t pre order yet”
This industry is amazing.
“Muh exclusivity!”
Sony wanted a week and a half head-start to get those early buys.
I just want a game with some jiggles. If this game has jiggles in 4K/60 then I’m interested.
Is it too much to ask for some decent games with jiggle physics?!!1
I think it’s still the same, in all honesty. I saw this video of some guy who was playing Nier where the female lead character had no skirt and her butt was 10/10. The Japanese designers know what they’re doing.
I’m not an anime fan at all but I saw this game called Sagura Kenran or something and it was ludicrous in an awesome way. Like Power Stone only with a line-up of fighters so over-the-top sexy that I started laughing.
Japan hasn’t really changed in that regard and won’t. There’s too much demand for games like that.
Give us a demo maybe?
Man, space requirements these days are pretty ridiculous, is it just cause the devs are lazy to compress or generally everything needs to be this bloated? Why was Witcher+expansions under 50gb and Wolfenstein New Order over 50gb, what is happening!
Yeah… But what specs do I REALLY need?
Considering it runs at 60fps on PS4 it’s probably less than these specs.
Yeah, definitely.
“Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB”
lol what?