Ryu ga Gotoku 3 heading to Japan spring 2009
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan, News, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with Ryu ga Gotoku 3, Yakuza 3.
Ryu ga Gotoku (Yakuza in the west) Kenzan was not the third game, it was a spin-off. It seems that Nagoshi isn’t going to rest after just launching Kenzan this year. He is already working on the follow up to Ryu ga Gotoku 2, even though we are barely getting it over here this September.
Ryu ga Gotoku 3 will take place two years after the events of Ryu ga Gotoku 2. All the living characters in the previous game will make their return and there will also be introduction to new characters, some suggested were other cultures. So we might see Americans and other nationalities in the game. The new game will also have a lot more brand tie-ins, like the first one had real coffee brand shops (Boss Coffee) in the city. This is to add to the realism. The voice work will be a all star cast rivaling that of Kenzan! Setting for the game will return to Kamurocho district, Osaka, and new comer Okinawa. Its going to be pretty interesting looking at the old cities on a next gen console.
This game is guaranteed to blow the previous games out of the water. Lets hope it gets localized sooner than the previous titles. Like the previous title, this seems to be a Playstation 3 only affair.
Comments on this article
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God dammit.
It’s like Sega wants me to buy a smegging PS3!
Grrr…
Glad to hear the series is continuing though :)
Graham
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 am.
360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360, 360, 360 ,360.
C’mon Sega
City Hunter
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 am.
Sweeet. Thank fuck I have a PS3. I’ve only had it a week but it’s given me some fun times (including Yakuza 2 :)) and heres to some more. Shenmue 3 next (or Shenmue Kenzan, whatever’s good).
Leaf
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 am.
sweet
ratix240sx
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 am.
I was a little unhappy when Kenzan was announced thinking there would be no more Kazuma (not too unhappy, mind you. Kenzan looks incredible), but now that I see it was a spin off, everything makes sense. :)
shinneri
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 am.
Glad I just bought a PS3.
Emmett The Crab
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 am.
Cityhunter, its a Playstation franchise, unless im mistaking? I think this may be one franchsie that stays on sony platforms.
Kyle
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm.
No,’ its a SEGA franchise, and Sega is a multiplatform company, not a Sony’s second party…
City Hunter
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 pm.
But Xbox360 is a failure in Japan and it is there that Yakuza has it’s strongest fanbase, just buy a Playstation 3, this is not going to change anytime soon.
Aki-at
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm.
Then again, if they use the “Hedgehog Engine” and have already decided to bring it to the West, they may bring it to the Xbox360, though I’ll still say it’s more likely on the Playstation 3.
Aki-at
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 4:56 pm.
I’m also glad there will be Yakuza 3!! I still have to play Kenzan thou
landman
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 5:26 pm.
Sigh…
I would like to play Yakuza3 but i don’t have a PS3.
MADSYSTEM
Posted July 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm.
@aki-at: that’s true, the strongest fanbase is in Japan, but I don’t see why all these Sega games (Yakuza 3,4 Valkyria Chronicles) have the exclusivity on the Sony console.
Sony dind’t pay Sega a cent, and those games barely reached the 200k copies in Japan.
I’m not saying that on 360 these games would receive a major success, but with a simple porting (port from ps3 to 360 it’s simple accondring to many developers) you can have at least another 200k copies also in US and EU with the same game.
City Hunter
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 am.
That’s speculation, there is nothing to suggest that the title will sell another 200,000 if it came to the Xbox360, Virtua Fighter 5 failed to reach even 150,000, forget 200,000. And it took it months to reach were it is now, not weeks.
There is also nothing to suggest that Valkyrie Chronicles will sell another 200,000 either (And Valkyrie Chronicles has become the most successful strategy game in Japan since Sakura Wars) just people wanting it too occur, it could fall flat on it’s face like Eternal Soneta did.
As for tha Yakuza game, the strongest fanbase is in Japan, the West has yet to show it has a large enough fanbase for the title, even SEGA is taking no risks by just having Japanese VA this time when the game releases in the West. As it stands, Japan is the only place were Yakuza is a successful series to them, so they will by no means risk anymore money by porting it over to a failed console in Japan.
If Yakuza 2 is a big success, they may change they mind, but as it stands there is no need for them to risk more money, they are a business after all.
Aki-at
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 am.
Of course, this is not to say they will not do it, but at the current moment, there is nothing to show they should do it.
Aki-at
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 am.
Does this give Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan a better chance of coming out in North America or Europe? I’m so interested in that title!!!
Daniel
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am.
You can’t say that Yakuza 3-4 and Valkiria will fail on 360, of corse if Sega coninue with his policy of no-advertising, there is no one to blame for his economic failures…
BTW, VF5 reached more than 200k copies, and 360 don’t lack in good games like PS3 at the time of VF5 release…
Eternal Sonata did well, like tha majority of ps2 rpg, if Namco and Square are making many rpg EXCLUSIVELY on 360, it means something…
Sega is doing a mistake after another, if you want to spread the Yakuza brand over the West, you can’t leave the western leading platform (360) behind.
If they want to remain in Japan, is another matter…
City Hunter
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm.
City Hunter is right, lets make it come out on the Wii.
George
Posted July 3rd, 2008 at 6:04 pm.
“You can’t say that Yakuza 3-4 and Valkiria will fail on 360, of corse if Sega coninue with his policy of no-advertising, there is no one to blame for his economic failures…”
Why can’t I? Prior to this the Xbox was a total failure for SEGA.
“BTW, VF5 reached more than 200k copies, and 360 don’t lack in good games like PS3 at the time of VF5 release…”
No it didn’t, if you trust websites like VGChartz then maybe it did but it bombed in Europe, didn’t appear in any NPD reports and Famitsu only says it sold 17,000 copies in Japan.
“Eternal Sonata did well, like tha majority of ps2 rpg, if Namco and Square are making many rpg EXCLUSIVELY on 360, it means something…”
Yes, Microsoft is paying them for exclusives. Some of them are timed exclusives though, that shows something.
Eternal Sonata did not do that good, okay in Japan and in America but a bomb in Europe, like I said, there is a reason why it was a timed exclusive.
“Sega is doing a mistake after another, if you want to spread the Yakuza brand over the West, you can’t leave the western leading platform (360) behind.”
That would be the Wii, not the Xbox360, which is under really threat with the Playstation 3 now, which is number 2 in Japan, number 2 in Europe and by sometime next year, could very well be number 2 in America.
This is the better decision from what you see as a “Wrong” decision. There is nothing to indicate the Xbox360 would be a better userbase, like I said, if Yakuza 2 succedds in the West then yes they should perhaps think about it, but as Yakuza is more of a Japanese title, then it should stick on the PS3.
There is NOTHING to indicate that a Xbox360 port would work.
And anyway, SEGA has confirmed it as a PS3 exclusive so it doesn’t matter anyway.
Aki-at
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 5:37 am.
“If they want to remain in Japan, is another matter…”
That is my point with Yakuza anyway, not Valkyrie Chronicles, which I think will find it hard to preform on the Xbox360, but also the PS3, because it is not a RPG title but a strategy game instead, who are not known to preform well.
Aki-at
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 6:17 am.
“City Hunter is right, lets make it come out on the Wii.”
George, ff course I meant the next gen, not the wii.
“Why can’t I? Prior to this the Xbox was a total failure for SEGA.”
You can’t blame Xbox for Sega failures, especially the 360, where ALL third parties evenm the japanese ones are making the real money.
Apart a 6 months delayed and not advertised (or bad advertised) port with a very basic online mode, can you tell me one Sega 360 exclusive?
I mean from the REAL SEGA (not fake sega games like Full Auto).
How can you expect love from xbox gamers if you don’t give it in the first place?
“No it didn’t, if you trust websites like VGChartz then maybe it did but it bombed in Europe, didn’t appear in any NPD reports and Famitsu only says it sold 17,000 copies in Japan.”
Why I have to trust you? (Don’t take it bad) I don’t think that 360 didn’t manage 200k copies, for example, every week VF5 was always out of stock in many uk shops…
“Yes, Microsoft is paying them for exclusives. Some of them are timed exclusives though, that shows something.
Eternal Sonata did not do that good, okay in Japan and in America but a bomb in Europe, like I said, there is a reason why it was a timed exclusive.”
maybe, or maybe not, who knows, without proofs its just speculations.
But you’re missing a big thing, we have passed from a non-japanese console (xbox1) to a one that is near to becoming the new home for console rpg…
Don’t undestimate this.
In any case, 200k copies for Yakuza and Valkyria, two big budget games, in Japan, it’s far from success and from a concrete reason to mantain these two “free” exclusive.
City Hunter
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 8:58 am.
“You can’t blame Xbox for Sega failures, especially the 360, where ALL third parties evenm the japanese ones are making the real money”
No, everyone is doing good on both console. But if we want to talk about money, then SEGA should just invest on the Nintendo Wii, cheaper and larger userbase.
Everyone is making the REAL money on the Wii, on the Xbox360 and PS3, they barely make much profit.
“I mean from the REAL SEGA (not fake sega games like Full Auto).
How can you expect love from xbox gamers if you don’t give it in the first place?”
If we are going to start talking about love from Xbox gamers, then they got their fair share last gen, and they obligied by making sure almost all of the titles bombed.
“Why I have to trust you? (Don’t take it bad) I don’t think that 360 didn’t manage 200k copies, for example, every week VF5 was always out of stock in many uk shops…”
We you shouldn’t, but as I’ve seen NPD reports, the presence in Chart Tracker, the sales in Famitsu, this is what I’ve seen. Your free to research this yourself, some of the data is made public.
“maybe, or maybe not, who knows, without proofs its just speculations”
Check the sites I told you.
“But you’re missing a big thing, we have passed from a non-japanese console (xbox1) to a one that is near to becoming the new home for console rpg…”
Those are timed exclusives though.
“In any case, 200k copies for Yakuza and Valkyria, two big budget games, in Japan, it’s far from success and from a concrete reason to mantain these two “free†exclusive”
Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! sold over 270,000 copies in Japan, on average retailers make $78 on PS3 games, SEGA probably made at least about $16,000,000 million. If they thought Kenzan! Was a bomb they would not opt for it as a exclusive, it did enough to cover costs and marketing and the THE BEST version is not released, were SEGA makes their money with the Yakuza games.
Likewise Valkyrie Chronicles has to sell around 130,000 in Europe and America to become successful. Hardly reason to not support the PS3.
If SEGA made a FPS and made it exclusive to the PS3, I’d call them out on that as that would sell on the Xbox360, but as it stands, SEGA of Japan have no games that show any signs of being successful on the Xbox360 outside of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Aki-at
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 10:46 am.
City Hunter…
Sony pays Sega to keep the games exclusive. Yakuza is one of the biggest series in Japan right now, and is by far and away Sega’s flagship title in the land of the rising sun.
Sega’s XBOX exclusives have all bombed. Without exception. Their X360 games, Chromehounds, Full Auto and Condemned have only been minor successes. I really see no reason for Sega to invest. Furthermore the X360 is dying and the PS3 is really starting to pick up steam, especially in terms of software.
Virtua Fighter 5 sold like shit on both consoles, but the X360 version had literally every advantage imaginable, and still sold less than half the PS3 version.
Jon
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm.
I don’t think that Sony paid Sega for those two games.
Sega simpli chosen ps3 because Yakuza and Valkyria are japanese games, and Sony had make some advertising for Yakuza and a bundle for PS3, end of the deal.
Xbox exclusives? What exclusives? Wow, Full Auto, one of the crappiest Sega racing games ever…
Condemned and Chromehounds reached more than 500k, Chromehounds was one of the most played game on xbox live at the time…
And don’t forget Sonic 06, almost a million on 360 with all those bad reviews.
In any case, 3 average games, and 3 FAKE Sega games, just published.
Last, I didn’t see all this advantages of VF5 360 apart the no-advertised online gaming.
Including some new items is not enought for 6 months of delay, and it’s not a real advantage, not for a casual gamer.
City Hunter
Posted July 4th, 2008 at 2:09 pm.