NieR: Automata Gets PC Release Date and System Requirements

Giuseppe Nelva March 2, 2017 2:40 PM EST

Today Square Enix officially announced via its Japanese support portal that NieR: Automata will release on Steam on March 17th.

On top of that, we also get the system requirement for the game, which are as follows:

Required OS: Windows® 7 64 bit, Windows® 8.1 64 bit, Windows® 10 64 bit

32bit OS not supported

CPU: Intel® Core ™ i3 2100 or more · AMD A 8 – 6500 or more

Main memory: 4 GB or more

Hard disk / SSD: 50 GB or more free space

Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770 VRAM 2 GB or more AMD Radeon ™ R9 270X VRAM 2 GB or more

Sound Card: DirectX® 11 compatible

Internet connection: Broadband or more

Screen resolution: 1280 × 720

DirectX®: DirectX® 11

Others: mouse, keyboard, game pad (XInput only) Recommended OS: Windows® 8.1 64 bit, Windows® 10 64 bit

32bit OS not supported

CPU: Intel® Core ™ i5 4670 or more · AMD A 10 – 7850 K or more

Main memory: 8 GB or more

Hard disk / SSD: 50 GB or more free space

Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980 VRAM 4 GB or more AMD Radeon ™ R9 380X VRAM 4 GB or more

Sound card: DirectX® 11 compatible

Internet connection: Broadband or more

Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080

DirectX®: DirectX® 11

Others: mouse, keyboard, game pad (XInput only)

At the moment the Steam page isn’t yet up, but it should appear soon enough, considering that the game is just a couple of weeks away.

If you want to read more about NieR: Automata, you can check out our full (and rather enthusiastic) review.

The game sold nearly 200,000 copies in its debut week in Japan, where it’s currently available for PS4 (with English voices and text in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish included), while the PS4 version will release in North America on March 7th, and in Europe on March 10th.

You can also check out 27 minutes of shiny gameplay right here.

[Thanks for the tip: Maxis]