Yakuza 5 To Get Western Release, Yakuza 4 & Dead Souls Now Available
The SEGA-Nintendo exclusivity deal is certainly over.
Announced on Sony’s Playstation Experience show and confirmed via SEGA’s blog, SEGA and Sony are teaming up to provide Yakuza 5 a Western release (North America and Europe) in 2015 for PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network. The announcement also came with the news that Yakuza 4 and Yakuza: Dead Souls are now available on PlayStation Network. The games, as you can tell, will be digital only.
In the blog post SEGA elaborated more on what Yakuza 5 is:
Yakuza 5 continues the epic story of Kazuma Kiryu alongside four other protagonists, following their struggles and conflicts in the seedy underbelly of Japan’s Yakuza underworld. Featuring a new graphics engine versus its predecessor, Yakuza 5 takes players to five major Japanese cities to venture through a life of crime and power.
Yakuza 5 features more mini-games than previous titles, a modified battle system as well as enhanced customizations and interactions in the signature hostess bars of the series. In addition to these features, Yakuza 5 also introduces “Another Drama” which is a series of side stories that focus on each protagonist in-depth and are separate from the main story of the game.
An announcement trailer was also released.
This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.
Haha, you used my header image! I was too distracted watching the stream to get the post up in time. :p
Yeah, I rushed out to get the article up considering how big the news is then searched “Yakuza 5” in the image search. Yours came up. XD
PlayStation 3? 2015…?
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This is the best SEGA/gaming related news I’ve heard all year! Y5 is an absolutely amazing game from what I experienced of the Japanese version. It’s an improvement of the excellent Y4.
Anyone who likes games should get this game and support one of SEGA’s best franchises.
About goddamn time to be honest,this is great news…still wondering about PSO2 though.Either way though this is great to hear.
What’s Sony even get out of this? These are already exclusive to them aren’t they? It’s not even on PS4 which is what they desperately need for Japan.
Sony gets their share from each copy sold. Helping localise the game allows the game a bigger market and more potential sales and more income.
Wait……SEGA can put out games that actually look…alive?
I wanna try this out!
You definitely should. Y5 is an amazing game. But you should get Y4 as well before that, it’s a great game too.
It’s not to my taste, but for those who like this genre it is an absolutely amazing game! Yes, there is much more than Aliens and Sonic that Sega makes. Arguably, this right now is their best franchise. I hear tell that the Total War franchise’s Rome II isn’t half bad, either.
This is a good omen concerning Sega’s foreign affairs with their game releases. Maybe we’ll finally get PSOhfuckitthatgameisnevercominghere. :V
YES!