Nier: Automata blev utannonserat under Sonys E3-konferens 2015, men sedan dess har vi hört väldigt lite om spelet bortsett från att det blev försenat till 2017, och att det kommer ta över 25 timmar att klara spelet. Sedan tidigare vet vi att spelet ska släppas till både PC och Playstation 4, men någon Xbox One-version har vi inte hört talas om. Anledningen är enkel; Platinum Games har inte några planer för en sådan version.
Under en intervju med RPG Site berättar nämligen Yosuke Saito (Platinum Games) följande:
"To be quite frank with you, it was a lot of work last time to create two versions with different characters and such! I do think we were able to gather up a really great team of people to work on this title this time, so I didn't want to split their focus. That's why we wanted to just do one version this time - that was decided from the get-go".
"So, I think this isn't just our company - I think a lot of other companies also do it - but we actually start creating our games now on high-spec PCs and then optimize for the different consoles we release on. Since we already thought about releasing on Steam from the get-go, we'd already built the game in such a way that it would play on PC".
"As I said, this is especially so because we've heard in Europe that there are a lot of PC gamers. To port that over and optimize it for Xbox One requires a number of extra steps. I think that is way too much for us right now, so we've decided to only go for the one console platform".
Nier: Automata ska släppas i början av nästa år.