Nagoshi announce BlackPanther 2 [PSP], announces RGG studio, RGG5 in developmnte

[Pao]

Looks like Suzuki Yu is right on the money!

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/08/31/yakuza_developments/

[Suzuki Yu]

i am really curious to know whether or not they are going to split the team to two

[Centrale]

Sounds good to me!

[George]

What happen to the vita game announcement? I hope its not Yakuza 5.

[Suzuki Yu]

30min to go before the live conference getting started

[Suzuki Yu]

live broadcast starting now but nothing yet
http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv61583312

[Suzuki Yu]

here we go!

[Alex Supersonic]

Sounds good to me!

sounds boring to me...

Suzuki Yu any updates from the conference?

[Suzuki Yu]

- this is the team's logo
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/08/31/yakuza_studio_logo/
lol

- they will not focus only on RGG IP ... they will make new IPs such as Binary Domain

- the team includes all the key members Toshihiro Nagoshi, Masayoshi Kikuchi, Daisuke Sato, Yojiro Ogawa, and Masayoshi Yokoyama

- they revealed first details for Kurohyo 2
it's a direct follow to the story , Osaka included , you can play with 4 other characters

- they talked a lot about Binary Domain and they were showing the Japanese cast which includes famous JP actors

- announcement of Ryu Ga Gotoku 5 , no further details other than it's in early stage.

you can find some pictures for the event here
http://www.4gamer.net/games/115/G011525/20110831023/

[CrazyT]

Glad nagoshi ain't gone tbh

[STORM!]

  Nagoshi is doing the same thing Kojima has done, right? Hmm...

 I think Kurohyou 2 is for Vita; just look at the screens. PSP can not do that.

[George]

I see what they are doing to make it look so good. It seems that they will be focusing on detail on the characters, the backgrounds look ugly (if it was a Vita game) understandable to look like that for a PSP game though.

The one with the hostess seems to be in a small room, I assume the game will have to load just that small room to load a model like that. Makes sense.

[SOUP]

I really hope these games come out here.

[CrazyT]

The screens are really high res to be a psp game. If it were psp the screens woulda looked really pixelated. I say it's going to be a vita game allthough not 100% sure ^^

[Centrale]

They could just be higher resolution renders for print/web.  The background textures seem to be intended for a much lower resolution.

Anyhow, I'm happy that the main series will continue and they'll also be working on other series as well.  Although the term "milking" gets thrown around a lot here, they haven't made a bad Yakuza yet, and IMO each one has improved upon the previous one in huge ways.  It's not milking... it's more like "strike while the iron is hot."