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Skeeuk on 31 July 2009

Yakuza 3 American Release Still "Unconfirmed"

By Brian Ashcraft, 10:30 PM on Thu Jul 30 2009, 7,928 views

Keep hope alive! It seems SEGA America's Ray Almeda misspoke and gave his own personal opinion to The Examiner that Yakuza 3 will not be released in the States because of subpar Yakuza 2 sales.

The Examiner has since run an update, explaining those remarks were not "official SEGA statements." The Examiner adds, "SEGA still hasn't made any mention of an upcoming release or revealed plans to release it stateside."

PS3 exclusive Yakuza 3 (AKA Ryu Ga Gotoku 3) was released in Japan last February, selling over 200,000 copies in its first day.

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i sure hope for a yakuza 3 release in the west, they may aswell publish 300k copies so those who want to play it can do. game looks awesome. i hope for a possible feb-march 2010 release



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outlawauron on 31 July 2009

Well, there will always be hope!



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COKTOE on 31 July 2009

Good news!



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dsister44 on 31 July 2009

I doubt it will be released. Alot of the people that want it have already imported it. If it is released over here it won't sell



V-r0cK on 31 July 2009
dsister44 said:
I doubt it will be released. Alot of the people that want it have already imported it. If it is released over here it won't sell

Does it have eng subtitles? then i'd import it as well if Sega wont bring it to NA



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Skeeuk on 31 July 2009
V-r0cK said:
dsister44 said:
I doubt it will be released. Alot of the people that want it have already imported it. If it is released over here it won't sell

Does it have eng subtitles? then i'd import it as well if Sega wont bring it to NA

i think its just japaneese

i belive the game will do reletavly well in the west.



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Yakuzaice on 31 July 2009

I don't get why it is so hard to get some Japanese games to the west.  Tons of western games are released in Japan only to sell 10-20k copies or less.  There are even Japan only games that sell that little.  Yet they seem to want games to sell several hundred thousand or they won't bring them to the west.



Dgc1808 on 31 July 2009

I want this game SEGA.... please?



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badgenome on 31 July 2009

Don't toy with me, Sega!

@skeeuk: So you pulled that "possible Feb 2010" business out of your ass? Shameful.



wenlan on 31 July 2009

Yakuza 3 was sponsored by a lot of Japanese companies (local or national) for in game advertisements.
I don't know what SEGA will do with those ad if they decided to localize Yakuza 3 for western market......
Take them down? That would be weird....



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