New Ryuu ga gotoku (Yakuza) in development

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Onyxmeth said:

makingmusic476 said:

Stats87 said:

ClaudeLv250 said:

twingo said:
yahh how bout bring the other one to NA/eu first.

I don't think that's going to happen. Yakuza 2 was the "test" and it bombed pretty hard.

 

 

That was a dumb test if that's the case. That is, releasing an 18-month old game on a console nearing the end of it's cycle, surrounded by other games that are much more eye catching to most gamers.

 

And why wouldn't the first game have been the test?

Honestly, releasing Yakuza 2 as a "test case" over a year after all three next-gen consoles had arrived (two in the case of teh 360) would've just been a bad idea.

Maybe the first game was a test and it failed too? The second game had no trouble selling well in Japan even though the PS2 is just as old there as it is everywhere else. Face it. There's no evidence to say this can succeed anywhere except Japan. I mean 40K in America against 850K for Japan? Something is wrong there. Even Persona 4 managed to pull in 220K in America all the while coming out even later than Yakuza 2, and that game should be far more niche for an American audience.

 

Ehh even if it sells like 50k copies it's still something around 1M $ for publisher - should be enought to cover translation cost. Especially if they made it japanise audio+subs.