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NieR: Automata revived the Japanese games industry, says former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida
Shuhei Yoshida has called NieR: Automata the "game that changed everything", as it was responsible for reviving the Japanese games industry on its release.
"I think Yoko Taro created it without paying any mind at all to making it sell overseas, but it was a tremendous success," said Yoshida. As such, Japanese studios strove to "create based on their own culture and what they knew", realising this was the appeal of their work overseas. NieR creator Yoko Taro himself responded on social media, thanking Yoshida for the praise but crediting producer Yosuke Saito, who "ordered" him to make a game "that targets the Japanese market, without worrying about overseas reviews".
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