Yakuza 3 is Coming to the West

Parapraxis - 63 days 21 hours ago

Absolutely awesome!
Glad they recognized the demand in the west for this game.
I'll do my part by picking it up when it drops.

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deadreckoning666 - 63 days 20 hours ago

YES YES YES, I tried downloading the demo from the PSN Store, but it wouldnt finish installing.

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Delta - 63 days 20 hours ago

Sweet i love it. (PS3 is only does everything) :)

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Cwalat - 63 days 20 hours ago

FINALLY!

I was getting worried there for a while :P

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FlatulentGhost - 63 days 20 hours ago

"I knew this will happen"

I didn't. It sounded to me like something they weren't going to do until much later.

Hopefully original Japanese voice + English subs will be an option.

Home space, stuff for you avatars
Re-release of the original two games in a single pack like the MGS Essentials Pack.
Lots of hype on the PS Blog
And of course a localized version of the demo

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Christopher_Walken - 63 days 20 hours ago

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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atwon23 - 63 days 20 hours ago

These Japanese games have a western audience, and the powers that be are finally taking notice. Good times ahead.

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Orange - 63 days 20 hours ago

F*** ya! my austin brother. I'm buying.

Hook em' from San Francisco. Go horns.

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gintoki777 - 63 days 20 hours ago

FCK YEA!!!

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morganfell - 63 days 19 hours ago

I still run Yakuza 2. That game has so much depth - the fighting system alone breaks every bone in Niko's body.

Now if we can get a localized or even subtitled version of Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan! we'll have it made.

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RememberThe357 - 63 days 19 hours ago

Oh people, please buy this game!

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wxer - 63 days 19 hours ago

one of the best beat em up game of all times
this games just ownes all the other beat em up games
and thats a pure fact

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ABizzel1 - 63 days 19 hours ago

OMG He knows everything. I have been praying for this game to get a US release. In case you don't know Yakuza is Japan's GTA, but a brawler instead of a third person shooter. It's like Streets of Rage meets GTA.

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cyberwaffles - 63 days 19 hours ago

they have a demo for this on the japanese store?!?!

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DaTruth - 63 days 18 hours ago

Will it never end? The onslaught on my wallet and time! Sony, some of us have children we have to spend time with. One quality exclusive after another, will it never end? It would be heinous if it wasn't so awesome!

I wouldn't stop them if I could!

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Timday5 - 63 days 18 hours ago

It has no chance to be as good as Wii sports or even wii play. Those two games have sold so many more copies than any game this generation, so they are obviously the best. It figures morgandork would love this game. He probably can;t even play wii play or wii sports because of his lack of skill. Sales=best games, and so wii sports, and wii play are the best by far. How can you guys not see this. The ps3 has nothign but ps2 games with a new paint job. The only new next generation game system is the wii, better games, more immersive control. Get with it people, ps3 is so last gen its not even funny and don't get me started on 360 broken machine. Get a wii and play the best games. yakuza 3 will be no different than yakuza 2 except slightly better graphics and a short terrible story line.

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iHEARTboobs - 63 days 17 hours ago

You forgot to add the /sarcasm at the end of your post.

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RememberThe357 - 63 days 17 hours ago

Oh wait, this is N4G...

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Deathmammoth - 63 days 16 hours ago

@Christopher_Walken
I LOVE Clone High! That show is SO KICKASS!! thanks for posting that and making me want to watch the show again on DVD :P

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SaiyanFury - 63 days 12 hours ago

I wonder if Timday5 is really Seferoth in disguise, he even has the same "Sony fanboy" avatar and the same amount of bubbles. Seferoth has a long reputation here of devaluing Sony in favour of Nintendo. Wii sports sold more than Yakuza 3? Really? Considering that Wii Sports is included with every Wii sold, I wouldn't count that as game sales. As far as game sales go, Yakuza 3 sold a tonne of PS3s in Japan as well as lots of games themselves. He says the story in Yakuza 3 sucks. How does he know that? I ask you directly, Timday, have you ever played through a Yakuza game? The games are penned by an actual award-winning crime novelist by the name of Hase Seishuu. The Yakuza games are a triumph of Japanese storytelling. I've played through both Yakuza games, and it is officially one of my fave series'. Then again, I make the charge that you're actually Seferoth in disguise just to badmouth another breakout PS3 title. But then again, I'm a Sony fanboy. Just ignore my logical statements and rant about how I argue about game sales, and not about the actual games themselves. Oh yes, don't let me forget, I'll be getting this one, also on day one.

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gaffyh - 63 days 12 hours ago

Guys remember that drought of games when the PS3 was released? I only had Resistance 1 for like 6 months, and it was the only thing I played.

Well it was totally worth the wait...

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zeeshan - 63 days 10 hours ago

Ok Sony is listening to us, Sega is also listening to us. Now, we need to make sure we don't f**k this by not buying this game. All the PS3 gamers who have been asking to localize this game for the western market need to MAKE SURE they buy this game so our voices are heard even more in the future.

I am sooooooo gona get this game!

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Timday5 - 63 days 6 hours ago

If any of you have actually played wii sports you would realize it has the most imersive gameplay ever. Not to mention replay value. Yakkuza? who wants to play that, unless you live in Japan. Hate on the wii all you want, but you can't deny, wii sports and wii play are so much better than any ps3 game its not even funny. If you don't have a wii get one, sell your ps3 if you have to. I am sick of ps3 fanboys acting like good graphics make a great game, its funny how so many lists, list old games as the top games ever. Doom, Quake, SMB, tons and tons of old 16 bit and 8 bit games would beat out anything the ps3 has to offer. Good graphics don't make a game, ie kz2, mgs4, those two games were terrible. Plain and simple, they can't compare to wii sports or wii play. So just watch your pretty graphics, and have your terrible controls and be happy with that, don't hate on me for loving wii play and wii sports.

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ShinGundam - 63 days 6 hours ago

Sega's Risks = Gamer's Gains

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na2ru1 - 62 days 18 hours ago

Thank you for listening. Internet does all things amazing

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Redempteur - 63 days 19 hours ago

SEGA just tell me when you release it so i can plan how to spent my money

YES YES YES This one will be bought DAY ONE

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mastiffchild - 63 days 9 hours ago

Harrylla, you didn't need to go getting all angry. Thing is I don't soubt that those of us posting here will buy and would've bought the game anyway but sal, again, be poor for a Yaliza game in the west for the same old reasons. There will be no ads, it's coming very late and I can't see them stocking it very well either-they never have before yet always seem to make out the games have flopped when Sega themselves gaven't given them a real chance.

We all seem to forget that we on N4G could ALL buy a game and still it wouldn't be a success sales wise-the less avid, non press reading gamers need to have games pushed at them for massive sales to be possible. This isn't Halo and won't get the push those games get now will it?

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Hudahudahuda - 63 days 20 hours ago

And where can you play these works of art?

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topdawg122 - 63 days 20 hours ago

on the ps3

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cyberwaffles - 63 days 19 hours ago

it's not on the ps3...it's only possible on the ps3. lol had to say it.

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itchy18 - 63 days 19 hours ago

say it again

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SaiyanFury - 63 days 3 hours ago

It's been a good week to be a PS3 owner. Keep em coming boys. :)

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XxBarretxX - 63 days 20 hours ago

what kinda pope are you losing hope!?

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Pixel_Addict - 63 days 20 hours ago

you can't loose hope when you can afford a hat like that.

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helghan666 - 63 days 20 hours ago

WOOT!

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topdawg122 - 63 days 20 hours ago

I'm with ya buddy, we should try and support this game so Yakuza4 gets out here too

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Elven6 - 63 days 19 hours ago

Yakuza 1 and 2 didn't sell well yet if this source is true we will have Yakuza 3, never lose hope, especially when it comes to Sega! :)

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MAiKU - 63 days 8 hours ago

Reason being is that the whole marketing for this game is done all wrong for western areas.

Alot of people don't even know what "yakuza" means.

Now if they renamed the game "tokyo gangs" or something along those lines people might have a better clue as what to expect when they see the title in stores.

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Abriael - 63 days 18 hours ago

Honestly just another boring halo game in the middle of a million other FPS can't hold a candle to Yakuza 3. Only a rabid and blind xbox fanboy would think Halo ODST > yakuza 3.

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Shane Bettenhausen - 63 days 20 hours ago

But but but but SALES SALES SALES SALES!!!!!

I don't care about games, I only care about SALES!!!!

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Abriael - 63 days 18 hours ago

You may have missed that yakuza 3 has top notch graphics. That's quite the game seller.Yakuza 1 and 2 came to the us when their graphics were already way outdated even on the PS2.
The conditions are quite different. If yakuza 3 won't sell well, it can only because Sega doesn't know crap about marketing.

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The gaming GOD - 63 days 10 hours ago

The only reason the series didn't sell well on the ps2 was because even when yakuza 1 came out, it was on the verge of the next gen consoles. Nobody was giving this game attention because the new systems were almost upon us. Not to mention the marketing for this game was ALMOST (not completely) non existent. In fact, I'm not sure on this, but I think the 360 was only maybe 2 months away at the time.

And yakuza 2 was even worse because THAT one came out DURING this "next gen" of consoles.

Yakuza 3 however, won't have the same factors holding it back because for the most part, yakuza 3 will be coming out in a DECENT time frame. Not during the gen after and not just before the "next next gen"

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