Yakuza 1 and 2 HD was released on Wii U in Japan last week, and the sales numbers have now been released … and they’re not good. According to Dengeki’s sales charts, which run from Aug. 5-11, the game couldn’t even crack the top 50.
To make matters worse, the game was apparently outsold by Battlefield 3, which took the 50th spot and only mustered 1,878 unit sales. Seriously, could the game have sold that bad? However, the one silver lining in all this is Yakuza was released on Aug. 8, so technically, the game didn’t enjoy a full week on the shelves before its first week’s sales numbers were reported. Even still, though, a series as popular in Japan as Yakuza should have sold well more than 1,800 copies in the four days following its release.
We can only assume the worst for the series’ future in the West, as fans had been hoping the HD remake would have been successful enough in Japan to convince SEGA to bring it to the West, even as a downloadable version. Moreover, this can’t be good news for those hoping for a Yakuza 5 translation either.
[Via NeoGAF, Source Dengeki]
Well, it WAS released exclusively on the floundering Wii U… Maybe that’ll give them some incentive to port it to some platforms that are actually successful.
They did release it on PS3 in November last year. Don’t know how well it did off the top of my head, though.
Oh, it was? I’d completely forgotten about that. And isn’t that image from the PSP game?
lol, I’m not sure. I just used an image in the archive. I updated it with the official logo to make sure.
I really wanted to see a complete Yakuza collection on the Wii U because I’m so damn sick and tired of the goddamned trophy list looming over me like a nagging wife telling me what I still have to do. It’s a great game, a great franchise and was more than worthy to share with other J-consoles that could do it justice instead of having it be confined to cult-status.
I swear to God, if they don’t do something about bringing this to the west: I’m going to picket in front of Sega’s corporate building myself…okay, maybe I won’t go THAT far. Still, they need not look further than the success of bringing The Last Story to the west to get themselves motivated. The stigma against Nintendo in the west was that the vast majority of games developed for their platforms appealed to “kids”.
Bring this stateside and the rest of those yuppie, hipster idiots will finally shut their damn traps.