Yakuza 3 heading to Europe and NA in March 2010

It would have been stupid for them NOT to do it frankly.

when a million people wanna buy your product you don’t tell them no. you say, yes please! put your money in this bucket.

Peoples of the west: Can we have Yakuza 3 please
Sega: No
West: Please?
Sega: I’ll think about it.
West: Really?
Sega: Nah, just kidding.
West: But we really want it.
Sega: We know.
West: So does that mean yes?
Sega: You know what, NO, NEVER YOU CAN’T HAVE THIS GAME.
West: Fine then fuck you, I don’t want the game now.
Sega: Surprise! You can have the game now.
West: Oh you!

Now watch it sell okay the first week then plummet out of the charts.

\o/

Good news indeed!

Supposed to be a bit like Shenmue isn’t it?

A bit. Instead of QTE’s, you punch people in the face. Instead of going to work, you punch people in the face, instead of feeding a cat, you get drunk and punch people in the face. Instead of going around asking questions, you go around punching people in the face. Instead of punching people in the face you hit them over the head with a bike.

this has made my fucking year, this is now the game i want more than anything annouced.

And in the second one, you get to punch out a tiger. Two tigers in fact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmTPqQSo7ok

Isn’t FF XIII supposed to come out in March as well?

Yep. Japan is back with a vengeance. For march at least.

Cant see it making too much of a difference though, one is an RPG the other is a face punching simulator.

looks like an expensive year…. life is hard

What a bad time to release Yakuza 3. Putting Yakuza 3 against God Of War 3 seems like Sega wants Yakuza 3 to get low sales. It should be released between April and August 2010.

March is a fucked up month to release a game in 2010.

Gimmie Kenzan dammit!

Also, Hunman’s comment had me in tears of laughter… in the middle of class!

Victory!!!! Thanks Pat

What did Pat do?

Anyway, this might well take me over the edge in March.

What did he do? Well, he informed us. You know, the site being about news and all.

Stephany sheds a single tear before soldiering on.

Oops, I made an ass of myself. Sorry, Stephany
Pat you ol’good for nothing

To late; feeling have been hurt i’m sure.

Please don’t vote for me

/takes her beard off – proves she’s Steph

See? that’s why I was mistaken

You’ll never see Stephany and Pat in one room at the same time. Just sayin.

You found us out. In the afternoons, Pat dons a red curly wig and lipstick and becomes a belligerent, dyslexic southern lady obsessed with cats, her horoscope, and scotch.

It was bound to have happened sooner or later.

Day 1 purchase for me

The demo gave me a really bad impression of it tbh. I found it abit crappy, no idea how reflective of the full game the demo is though.

I guess you didn’t play the previous episodes then. It’s not technically impressive indeed, but the games as a whole are really engrossing.

No i didnt. It wasnt really the gfx that i didnt like, just the overall gameplay. I dont know, maybe i’ll look into it. Having the game in English (or atleast the text) can only help to.

I can die happy now.

*Dances*

Top news. Hopefully it’ll sell better than its predecessors in the West too.

Keeping the rich japanese voices… IE: We’re not gonna spend a dime more than we have to localizing this game..

Then we’re gonna send it to die by releasing it during March madness for VGs.

Then we’re going to tell westerners its their fault for not enjoying a game being spoken in another language. (Foreign films do SO well here don’t they??)

Then we’re going to blame western gamers (again) for not buying our game.

Then we’re gonna tell you that you can’t have Yakuza 4.

Speak for yourself uncontested. If the game was going to be dubbed, I wouldn’t buy it. People who have trouble reading subtitles should go back to school.

*facepalm* Yes because the majority of people who play video games think the same way as you.

They bitched about Yakuza not selling well in NA before yet they make it even more NA unfriendly. Keeping a game in Japanese is not a selling point to a mass market.

I get that, but I’m thinking of mainly my OWN enjoyment here. Having the Japanese gangsters from Japan walking around in Japan talking to other Japanese people in Japanese cities in New-York-gangsta-50-Cent-slang completely ruins the immersion for me even if I can’t understand Japanese.

I understand that the majority of the NA people consider reading an unreasonable challenge and that annoys me. It might be very self-centred of me, but meh – my own enjoyment comes first imo. I remember the English voice track from the first game, it completely spoiled the game for me. I was so glad the second had subs!

Anyway, the best solution is obviously having BOTH subs AND a dub in the game. Then everybody can choose whichever option they prefer and everybody is happy.
There’s plenty of space on a Blu-ray to include both the English and the Japanese voice tracks, it’s a shame that the only reason for not doing it this way is the bad sales from the first two games.

“As well as delving even further into the rich narrative of the Yakuza universe, the development team have pushed the PlayStation 3 hardware to the limits to produce a beautiful and startlingly realistic depiction of the Japanese underworld.”

Not even close “pushing the PS3 hardware to it’s limits”

Yay! Result!

Please make sure you actually buy it now, PS3 owners.

Was Yakuza 2 sales bad in the west? Maybe so because I think it came out right around the new console releases. Oh well I’m still buying this day1 but sales won’t be great in the west I think. Its a cult fan hit now, but hey you never know.

Yeah, Yakuza 2 sales were bad. It was nearly two years after it released in Japan and launched when the PS2 was basically dead so it was never going to do great. But it isn’t the kind of game which is easy to sell over here for some reason. I have no idea why either, because it’s awesome fun. Getting people to actually try it in the first place appears to be the struggle. The ’3′ at the end of its name possibly doesn’t help it reach new audiences either – people are generally reluctant to pick up on a series half way through.

yea I remember Garnet Lee talking about it on the 1up Podcast and this when the PS3 just came out like 3 months prior. I was wondering why he was still playing a PS2 game.

I think I’ll try to hunt it down and give it a go. I hope it hasn’t vanish like Z.O.E.2 yet.