Man, what a clusterF. Earlier today, Square Enix released a new trailer for NieR Automata. And surprisingly enough, a version of that trailer featured a release date for the PC version. According to that trailer, that was available on Square Enix’s press site, NieR Automata was coming to the PC on March 10th. However, and as we’ve already said, it appears that the PC version will be delayed.
Square Enix has replaced that trailer in its press site with another, and in there is no sign of a PC release date in this new one. This new trailer only mentions the PS4 release date.
For what it’s worth, here is a screen-grab from the earlier trailer mentioning the PC release date.
And here is a screen-grab from the new trailer (that is the same with the one that Square Enix shared via its official media channels).
Yesterday, we informed you about the possible delay of NieR Automata PC. As NieR Automata’s producer, Yosuke Saito, claimed, PlatinumGames is currently working on the PC version, however they (PlatinumGames and Square Enix) don’t want to release a broken game and will have to do something about the piracy that plagues the PC platform.
Whether this delay is due to console time-exclusivity deals or not remains to be seen. The point is that when this latest trailer was originally created, Square Enix planned to release the Steam version on March 10th. However, this is no longer the case. Moreover, and according to the latest press release, NieR Automata will be coming to the PC later this year.
“NieR: Automata, developed by SQUARE ENIX and PlatinumGames Inc., will release in North America on March 7 for the PlayStation® computer entertainment system and Steam® in 2017.”
And that is that!
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They also claimed that there was no Xbox version because the console sales in Japan weren’t great.
So yeah, this is probably some last minute exclusivity deal they’re trying to justify.
The Xbox One indeed did not sell well in Japan. I can understand why they wouldn’t bother with that version there. Not sure about US though… they could’ve made an Xbox One version for that market if they really wanted to I believe.
It shouldn’t cost too much to just release an Xbox One version digitally in Japan, if they don’t want to get into a large-scale production & distribution deal for a load of physical copies, though, I mean, in the end, it’s a simple port job we’re talking about here, after all.
I thought the Japan is still into retail, aren’t they? Would digital be viable?
Yeah they’re still an overwhelmingly-retail market, but considering they have to do an Xbox port for the international release anyway, even if they only sold 5,000 copies of the digital version, so what.
In the end, it’s still free money.
Any way I can see that without owning an xbox? Like how digital foundry does comparisons. Sounds fun.
Last minute lol, they basically never marketed the PC version.
“Piracy that plagues PC” wow early 00 is back, i guess Tomb raider and Deus Ex low sales are to blame on piracy too?
Deus Ex sold low because it was too short and was cut to pieces to be sold off as DLC. I wouldn’t blame gamers why DE:MD didn’t sell well.
For TR, I dunno. It was an okay port and an okay game.
Deus Ex MD sold low because it’s sh*t and pointless, for tomb raider well, pretty much the same.I could play 10/20 mins of both, absolute trash.
Yeah, that’s like your opinion, man.
Yeah, whatever.
Deus ex yeah its garbage, but tomb rider is good
Pfff
Deus Ex sold low because the game is incomplete and mediocre at best, not to mention the terrible marketing campaign. As for Tomb Raider, it was just more of the same. What makes me angry is that corporations love to use piracy as a scapegoat to hide their own incompetence.
I wouldn’t say it was mediocre. It had good gameplay which was a refinement from the first game.
But I’d agree for the terrible marketing and decision making SE made.
I judge the product as a whole, good gameplay alone will not save it from being a mediocre product.
well you cant really blame piracy for sales of the game that was cracked months after initial release
TR sales was low because they released on the same day as Fallout 4 and only on xbone
I’m talking about PC sales, it has DENUVO and still sold badly and is constantly on sale with Deus Ex to recover costs. My point is, piracy has become a great scapegoat for incompetence. I would believe the “Piracy is killing the PC market” had not Witcher 3, Fallout, Elder Scrolls and many others that didn’t had much or any DRMs did great on PC, even smaller titles like Stardew Valley do great and has no DRM whatsoever. Make a Great game, market it well and people will buy it.
The game also ran absolutely terribly at launch. I was getting fluctuations from 1-80 fps.
It took months for them to get it to acceptable levels, and even then it’s still just that.
it’s great news PC being delayed.. pirates dont deserve playing this game
By that logic, people who shares the game disc on console shouldn’t be playing it too?
That’s a flawed logic. Piracy creates a second copy which can be used simultaneously along with the original one. Sharing a game disc doesn’t.
Yeah, but it doesn’t change the fact that the copies weren’t sales.
Piracy =/= lost sale
No one implied as such to begin with. But the fact remains that freeloaders should not be entertained regardless of sales numbers. The simple idea being that if you don’t pay, you don’t play. But this is of course not just a PC problem, but a problem with digital goods in general across a variety of platforms.
But…. but…. the developers called second-hand sales “akin to theft”!
;D
But it’s perfectly legal, ain’t it? Developers have to deal with it since the customer already paid for it.
Double standards without principle. Hiding behind legality. Nice.
I won’t exactly call it a “double standard” since in the case of copyright infringement, no payment is made. In addition to the fact that the license is not duplicated while re-selling the game.
Granted the used game market is pretty contentious, but it’s not a black and white issue as in the case of copyright infringement.
However this is just my take on it as a PC gamer. I don’t game on console and have nothing to do with the used game market.
For now. They keep pushing against consumer’s rights though, who knows for how much longer.
Yeah, because you can’t make pirated disc copies of games… >_>
You didn’t read the comment. He mentioned “sharing” a disc. Creating pirated disc copies don’t amount to sharing.
And the plebs who buy their console games exclusively from Gamespot where the devs and publishers don’t see a dime.
Ya, that’s what we get for having too many moochers.
“yeah lets lose all the possible revenue on PC because a few hundreds pirate our game”
best logic ever
It looks like crap anyway from the trailer. I respect platinum games, but this looks thrown together they should have showed more gameplay options instead of showing what looked to be last generation graphics running fast on current gen hardware.
It really looks a Platinum game with its typical shallow combat
Platinum has shallow combat? Lol, thanks for the laugh.
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I’ve only played (and ended) Madworld, Infinite Space, Bayonetta 1 &
2 and also tried the TW 101 demo. All those games are very shallow(yes, even the space JRPG).
Just keep smashing buttons randomly until the level eventually ends. No
strategies, no combos… just smashing buttons like there are no
tomorrow.
Yes, Bayonetta combat LOOKS good and fluid, but gameplay-wise the
lack of a real combos just make almost all the weapons feel the same (just faster or slower)
making the game shallow and boring to play. It’s not like Devil May Cry
(I’ve only played 3 and 4), for example, where every weapon have its
uniques combos,attributes, pros and cons… And where you need to choose your equipment, bringing some sense of strategy.
Maybe their licensed games are better (The Legend of Korra, Transformers, TMNJ…), but the reviews says just the opposite…
you should really try Metal Gear Rising
it’s probably their best game yet
but otherwise, i do agree that some of their games are a bit too easy…
I’m not talking about difficulty, just about gameplay
Uh… difficulty settings can be part of what constitutes gameplay though. :v
I don’t see it like that. Pokemon games are very easy, but very deep too. Dwarf Fortress is very very deep and very very hard, so hard that losing is fun.
I don’t know about Bayonetta but I’ll write about the 3 I played and greatly enjoyed.
You don’t play platinum games for their combos, back from the days of Okami and God Hand, they weren’t good combo games. They are great mechanically fluid games with a skill based combat system. They are fun for the challenge of winning the fight with some flair and spectacle.
Same with MGSR, the only usable weapon in the game is the main sword, every other weapon breaks the flow of combat, the usage of guns and items is clunky as hell. Their games are about overcoming challenge with a fast fluid combat system that works mechanically.
Their games are Dark Souls with faster reflexes and more fun. They are about mastering attacks, attack combinations, parry and dodge and then combining them together to form a seamless dance of perfection.
The thing about DMC3 and DMC4 is.. . . .they are frankly the absolute best of their genres. No game can be compared for their absolute masterful combat system and understanding of balance. But right below DMC series the Platinum games take over, its quite a gap from the perfection of the DMC combat but platinum games are the best right after DMC.
The games are not about combos, think more Onimusha and less DMC.
No, Platinum games are not like dark Souls but faster, you don’t need skill to kill damage sponges you just need to keep smashing buttons. You can’t do that in Ds
Since you are so unwilling to accept it do try God Hand and MGSR if you mash buttons and win on the normal difficulty you will have my respect and many others. -_-
Old games are old. Kamiya made the first DMC and Bayonetta sucks (the game, the character is just young Dante with boobs, I’m ok with that), so trying God Hand is useless. And I’m not a fan of Metal Gear series, so I’m not interested in a spin-off…
But ok, maybe MGSR is the only good game from Platinum, but the rest of theirs games not.
All I care about is how good the jiggle physics are and if the amount of upskirt shots is high. Gameplay is secondary.
mmmhhhmm actually no their action games are solid especially metal gear revengeance, even transformers had better combat system when some more popular games lol
And then the Japanese wonder why they’ve been in a recession for 30+ years
And that’s not even including how much money they toss away each year with their terrible anime-manga exporting, going back I don’t even know how many decades now.
Well to be fair, you usually do what you’re best at. If someone is really good at trumpet then let them play the trumpet, if Japan is good at making Anime-Manga and jailbait then let… nevermind.
Platinum Games is the one who deserves the blame NOT SE
i bet the PC port got the short end of the stick with this title , it’ll look like the PS4 version 100% no enhanced shadows/textures at all
this studio sucks bad and their engine looks old
The blame for what exactly?
delaying the PC port
LMAO this has SE all over it.
This, exactly. Typical Square Peggings “F*ck the Consumer” behaviour.
Yep, since when a dev team (especially a small-ish like Platinum) has saying in when a game launches, delays and what not?
The delay is to add DRM (from what we can gather). When it comes to adding DRM to a game it’s the publishers fault. A publisher uses their money to fund the development of the game. They want a large profit when the game goes on sale so what do they do? Add DRM to delay (maybe not stop) pirates.
The developer is just tasked to develop the game and do what the publisher wants. They have no say in the matter when it comes to DRM. They have no power because they didn’t fund the project (Unless it’s a self published game which in this case it isn’t). Imagine telling the company who is paying you and the funds for the game to not try and delay pirates which could in the end cost the publisher money. Yeah that won’t go down well.
I hate this myth that piracy is something that needs to be stopped for a game to do well, The Witcher 3 had absolutely no DRM yet it sold really well. Meanwhile, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Tomb Raider reboot 2, Hitman 2016, and every other Denuvo game outside of MGSV had mediocre sales at best. Denuvo doesn’t make pirates buy your game, it just makes poor Brazilians and teenagers unable to play the game. And I think the free marketing they give you combined with the offset of people like me who refuse to buy Denuvo games (not to mention the cost of licensing it) doesn’t make it worth using at all.
In case anyone’s curious the reason why I don’t buy Denuvo games is because I don’t like having to boot into Windows to play games and Denuvo doesn’t work with WINE (a compatibility layer for MacOS/Linux to run Windows applications).
Don’t forget, DOOM had Denuvo, then it got cracked, but it still sold great……
They also removed Denuvo from the game after it was cracked.
Yep it just show that any good game will sell well by itself without Denuvo or other BS
LOL some people on NEOGAF are very against PC ports.
Oh jeez…
Losers.
If only was just one place…
Why don’t you drop by n4g and soak in the PS4 fanboy-ism. Those people are nuts.
Console plebs act like PC piracy is costing THEM money and sh##. Sit down with your Plebstation “Pro”.
If your grandma can buy your “pro” gaming hardware at Walmart for you, there’s nothing professional about it.
It is POS not Pro. Pro is a pc with Ryzen X1700 GTX 1080 TI and(both hardware coming in a few daya) on a 1440p or 4k monitor! Iam getting Ryzen x1700 next week to replace my 2500K and this will destroy the Pro and Scorpio cpu!
Man, I’ve had a 2500K for 5 years. I am upgrading to a new build in a few months purely for VR (Vive).
Now is the time to actually upgrade.
And what more surpsising is that 2500k while it is old it can still max evry game at 4k ultra settings with a high end graphics card like GTX 1080. If next month that it is also release date of GTX 1080 we were deciding to keep our 2500k and get gtx 1080 (i have GTX 970 G1 GAMING and 1440p monitor DELLP2416D) we wouldnt have any issue maxing all gamers at 1440p and 4k 60 fps. However we cant do that with a ryzen x1700 but with a 970 or simiar card.Of course the card is also too good since it maxing evrything 1440p 30+ fps but still….
I think I’m going all AMD this time out. I’ve never owned an AMD GPU and only a few AMD CPUs but Ryzen is looking too good to pass up and Vega should be viable enough as a dollars/power value proposition to go with it.
It’s not a good thing for Intel and Nvidia to continue to reign with monopoly power of their respective sectors in the market. They’ve grown passive and lazy and the performance of their products is showing this.
NO ONE is buying PC gaming hardware from Walmart. I bought ink for my wife’s printer last year. That’s the extent of it. The people buying PC hardware from Walmart are the same types to buy an Alienware PC. Console gaming mentality trying to experience better performance but being too dumb to know how to get it.
If the prices are competitive I would buy from them. Neweggs restocking fee is BS and anti-consumer.
We need better competition.
We need not generalize people by the stores they shop at. It’s very small minded.
So does it means that Walmart is now starting selling pc’s too?
Really? wallmart sells GPU’s aswell??
are prices are better or worse than newegg?
Do you thik gameplay will be like western rpg like witcher and mass effect series or more like all the others jrpgs? From gamepaly i saw it looks more like JRPG than a western action rpg like the ones mentioned.
It is action based. Real time. Not typical turn based jrpg. You sure you saw gameplay?
If it is then like our western action rpg then i will like it. But on March iam going to buy dead rising 4 steam version and mass effect andromeda so even if pc version was coming at the same day it would had to wait.
It’s slasher, not rpg game. It has some rpg ellements, but it’s a far cry to call it rpg.
dont panic,the game is coming sooner or later
Can’t wait how SE react when CPY give them low blow to crack this game few days after release…
that would only reinforce their statement
bad f**king idea if you ask me
Man.. f**k square
this game actually looks good but no-way in hell i’m playing it on 900P on the poverty station
exclusives in 2017?? didn’t DSOgaming publish that 52% of developers prefer to publish on PC?
so why is this year full of non-Sony publishers trying to lock their games behind physical barriers?
It is just a timed ps4 exculive . Just like other games who were a xbox or ps timed exclive but later they came to pc and xbox ar at least on pc.
why the f**k do they still make TIMED exclusives??
because lets be honest, if you’re an adult and you know the game is coming
you’ed rather wait 8 months than play it on sub-gamer resolution
and by then this game would probably be forgotten by it’s crowd and nobody will buy it this
this decision is absolutely idiotic… Square needs to die.
This is far from idiotic, some people can’t wait and buy 2 times
Physical barriers? So like a Wall?
Nothing new dude a timed release is better when nothing at all
I wonder how big that Sony check was.
Or maybe they’re just working on it longer as the PC is complicated.
The PC really isn’t competition for the PS4. It wouldn’t make any sense.
Acctualy makes much sense…
The PC is complicated? But there are companies and indie devs that seem to do just fine releasing playable working games on PC.
NOT a competitor? but they make a new whole console to hold people jumping ship to PC?
Where are you live? Some deep rain forest?
You really think anyone is changing their mind because of the Pro? No. That’s a shallow excuse and you know it yourself to be true.
“S**t Square Enix!”
…So, now I’m looking at buying a PS4…
“(PlatinumGames and Square Enix) don’t want to release a broken game and
will have to do something about the piracy that plagues the PC platform.” hahahahaha better check again lol if the game is good people buy it, always piracy to blame on pc it just show how trashy these companies are.
Japs love taking a dump on the PC community.
So you all guys here are really mad about three days of extra wait. Dam i can’t even get my old games played Currently playing Mad Max, This War of Mine and just started GTA V i am ways back. At least have to pay less money for games. Steam wishlist is great way to go to remember what titles interested me 🙂