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]