NieR: Automata hits Japan in February

February 23

Last night during Sony’s TGS conference, Square Enix showed off a new NieR: Automata trailer that had part of the crowd pumped, and the other part rolling their eyes that we’d still have no actual release date for this thing. But the latter group was wrong, as the publisher revealed, at the very least, a Japanese date of February 23, 2017.

It is confirmed for a worldwide localization sometime in 2017, but we have no idea of when that actually is yet. At the very least we’ll have plenty of footage out of Japan (and spoilers) to ogle at next year. I’m cautiously optimistic as the original Nier was a flawed gem, but the fact that Platinum is involved (and taking its time) has me erring on the side of it being good.

Nier: Automata [Square Enix]