Yoko Taro: My Next Games Will Be Failures, So I Want To Make Money!

General news News 03/21/2018

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The title is indeed the NieR and Drakengard series’ director’s thoughts.

NieR: Automata is selling well – according to the franchise’s official Japanese Twitter account, the game sold over 2.5 million copies total on PlayStation 4 and PC in a little over a year, which is decent.

Despite the success, Yoko Taro told the following to Polygon: „If we’re going to get serious for a second, Nier: Automata and SINoALICE [a Japanese mobile game, which came out in June – the editor] — I put those both out, and they were huge hits. But I’m not confident my next games are going to be hits. I feel like I’m probably going to make nothing but failures for the next two to five years. So what I want to do right now is take as many jobs as I can to make as much money as I can, and then my reputation can just slowly decline after that. I’m pretty serious about this. I don’t think popularity lasts forever. So you’ve got to make as much money as you can, while you can.”

All we can say to this comment is „blunt.” He’s not growing an ego with his success, and it’s respectable. Of course, we don’t know what his next project could be (maybe a new NieR game?), but until we see it in action, we cannot judge its quality whatsoever.

Source: Polygon, Twitter

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