The Japanese Nier: Automata announced that the game has hit over 3 million physical game shipments and digital copies sold worldwide.

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This comes just three months after the critically-acclaimed action RPG reached 2.5 million sales in March . Coincidentally, director Yoko Taro celebrated his 48th birthday today, which he shares with the boyish protagonist of Nier Replicant.While Taro directed Nier: Automata, as he did its predecessors Nier Gestalt and Nier Replicant, development was handled by the Osaka-based PlatinumGames.Nier: Automata's critical and commercial success came after a string of poorly performing releases for PlatinumGames and the cancelation of Scalebound in early 2017. Last August, PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya tweeted that thanks to the success of Nier: Automata, Yoko Taro may very well have "saved" PlatinumGames.Currently, the developer is working on Bayonetta 3 for the Nintendo Switch.The first volume of the Nier: Automata novelization, Nier: Automata – Long Story Short is slated to be released in English this October. If you still haven't unlocked all of Nier: Automata's 26 endings, our comprehensive guide has you covered.