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Sq. Enix has announced that it’s going to maintain a stay stream to have fun the ninth anniversary of NieR: Automata on Friday, February 20, 2026, at 7:30 PM JST (5:30 AM ET). The stream shall be out there in Japanese worldwide by way of YouTube, in addition to the Japan-exclusive Niconico platform.
This stream will function 4 of the sport’s key employees members: Producer Yosuke Saito, Artistic Director Yoko Taro, Composer Keiichi Okabe, and Senior Recreation Designer Takahisa Taura. The 4 will maintain a lighthearted discuss present for round two hours. Sq. Enix will afterward maintain an after-talk session completely out there to Niconico Premium members. The corporate has additionally put up a high quality print stating that there shall be no new main reveals associated to the sport sequence on both stream.
Niconico can also be holding a public lottery that give Japanese residents the prospect to observe the discuss present bodily in Tokyo. After closing purposes on January 18, 2026, it would inform the winners on January 31, 2026. They have to then buy a ticket for 999 yen (~$6.35) by February 7, 2026, to verify their attendance.
The ninth anniversary of NieR: Automata will formally fall on February 23, 2026. Sq. Enix first launched the sport for PlayStation 4 in Japan on February 23, 2017. NieR: Automata has additionally since been made out there for PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Change. It is usually playable on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X, and Nintendo Change 2 by way of backward compatibility.
