Sega Europe: “No plans” for local Yakuza 3

two words, fuck sega

Today’s a sad day.

Well if people would buy the game we wouldn’t be in this situation Sega isn’t going to localize a game that doesn’t make profit in other countries.

I know I did… both.

i bought both

Let’s wrtite SEGA a letter and beg them for bringing Yakuza 3 to US and Europe!

I bought both too. Sometimes I think it must be only people who visit forums who actually knew they existed.

Same here, got both. The golden castle level in the second was insane though, loved it.

@Little Jacob : Begging sure worked well with Shenmue 3

the difference is yakuza 3 actually exists

Japanese version have English subtitles?

no, that why we keep asking for a us release

Is it so expensive to translate that game?!?!

I HATE YOU SEGA!

I’d be happy enough with subtitles.

Even if they sold 20k copies at $15 profit a piece surely that would be enough to cover some subtitles? Translators don’t cost $300k.

>:(

no, that why we keep asking for a us release

Sad day

You have to pay royalties to the Japanese VA its why Square doesn’t put out Japanese VO on their games.

i dont see why the dont just do the subtitles and get a third party to release it, or as a psn download only.

I surmise third parties would make even less money once they’d bought the license from Sega. Translation costs cash, voice actors require payment even if you don’t hire new ones, then there’s manuals, discs, marketing, Sony’s cut, etc. etc. etc.

The Eurogamer article mentions that “only 40,000 copies of the second game were sold over there, and the first one didn’t do much better” which *may* have something to do with Sega’s decision…

Too bad because I would certainly buy a subtitled version, although I haven’t played any of the prequels. In fact I’d preferred a subtitled version over a english-voiced one

“Too bad because I would certainly buy a subtitled version, although I haven’t played any of the prequels. In fact I’d preferred a subtitled version over a english-voiced one ”

For sure. The other thing is, you only have to look at when the two Yakuza games were released in the US to realise why they did so badly.

Yakuza 1 came out after the 360 had been released and just before the PS3 came out.

Yakuza 2 came out after the PS2 (especially the game sales) had pretty much died a death in the US, with the hardcore mostly having moved onto the 360 / PS3.

It’s not like they were going to blow the doors off.

Maybe Sega of Japan will put out subtitles as DLC for the JP version.
Let a man dream…

I say the only hope would be fanmade translations . But it will take the same eons you could use , learning japanese on your own

“No current plans” until fans step up and make their desire known. Let’s do it guys! Yeah, we’ll keep dreaming Mr. Garratt, because this game is said by some to be better than GTAIV.

Petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/yakuza/petition.html

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You really can’t compare the two. They’re absolutely nothing like each other.

Thing is, lots of people do compare the two.

Which is probably why nobody fucking buys it.

lol petitions

No, nobody bought the first 2 because it was really focused for and ingrained in the Japanese culture. You had to memorize names that Westerners don’t easily keep into their heads. That deeply cut into the excite and story-line for most folks. I don’t suppose part 3 would be any different but I was a fan of part 2. It can’t cost all that much money for Sega to even just supply subtitles.

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Yakuza creator said it himself it is his err, ‘version’ of GTA style game.

Do a trial first:

Ask them to release Kenzen and then go from there.

http://kotaku.com/5326900/yakuza-3-american-release-still-unconfirmed