Nier: Automata ble annonsert under Sonys pressekonferanse på E3 2015, men siden den gang har vi hørt lite om spillet bortsett fra at det ble utsatt til 2017, og at det vil ta over 25 timer å runde spillet. Vi har kjent til at det er forventet til Playstation 4 og PC, men noen Xbox One-versjon har vi ikke hørt om. Dette skyldes ganske enkelt at Platinum Games ikke har noen planer om en slik versjon.
I et intervju med RPG Site sier nemlig studioets Yosuke Saito at det tar for mye tid:
"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 skal slippes i begynnelsen av 2017, men vi har ingen dato ennå.