D uring the Xbox 360 and PS3 era, there was a trend of Japanese game developers trying to make games to appeal to western ...

Automata the "game that changed everything", as it was responsible for reviving the Japanese games industry on its release.

NieR: Automata Producer Yosuke Saito told developer Yoko Taro to make the game with the Japanese market in mind.

Automata was an inflection point in which devs stopped worrying about if games rich in Japanese culture would sell overseas.

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has praised Nier: Automata, and said its impact is so large, you can see a clear ...

In an interview with AVWatch (as translated by Genki_JPN ), Yoshida said the Japanese games industry was struggling after ...

The release of Nier Automata 'revived' the Japanese games industry, which was struggling after the PS3 era, according to ex-Sony executive Shuhei Yoshida.