Yoko Taro, director de NieR: Automata, reveló que desea retirarse de la industria de los videojuegos, pero continúa trabajando por temor a desarrollar demencia. El creativo aseguró contar con los ahorros y la pensión necesarios para dejar de trabajar inmediatamente.
A pesar de considerar que cumplió sus metas profesionales tras su debut con Drakengard, Taro explicó que utiliza la exigencia y frustración del trabajo como un ejercicio para mantener su cerebro activo, recurriendo al desarrollo de juegos como una herramienta contra el deterioro cognitivo de la edad.
As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.