jakncoke
07-30-2009, 12:40 AM
Earlier this evening, I was talking with a friend, Mr. Ray Almeda, who works in the Sega marketing department, and we did some catching up and had a bit of small talk. Before our conversation ended, though, I asked him about the current status of Yakuza 3 coming stateside. He gave me a blunt answer: No Yakuza 3.
Sega fans and Yakuza fans will be saddened to know that Sega won’t be bringing Yakuza 3 stateside. The reason as to why they won’t be bringing the game over is simple: it won’t sell, he told me. They have a firm stance to believe that would be the case, too. Yakuza 2 has only sold around 40k copies in America on the PS2. The numbers for the original Yakuza aren’t much better.
The series is moderately popular in Japan and the series will stay there. With the recent announcement of Yakuza 4 coming to PS3 in the future, you can bet it won’t see release outside of Japan.
Well it makes sense business wise, the PS2 versions of Yakuza which has like 6 times the install base sold less than 50k and that's the PS2 which sold software like hotcakes. The PS3 which for the most part seems to struggle there, the Yakuza fans are probably writing nasty letters demanding Sega change there stance, Sega in which will look down and whisper "No"
Sega fans and Yakuza fans will be saddened to know that Sega won’t be bringing Yakuza 3 stateside. The reason as to why they won’t be bringing the game over is simple: it won’t sell, he told me. They have a firm stance to believe that would be the case, too. Yakuza 2 has only sold around 40k copies in America on the PS2. The numbers for the original Yakuza aren’t much better.
The series is moderately popular in Japan and the series will stay there. With the recent announcement of Yakuza 4 coming to PS3 in the future, you can bet it won’t see release outside of Japan.
Well it makes sense business wise, the PS2 versions of Yakuza which has like 6 times the install base sold less than 50k and that's the PS2 which sold software like hotcakes. The PS3 which for the most part seems to struggle there, the Yakuza fans are probably writing nasty letters demanding Sega change there stance, Sega in which will look down and whisper "No"