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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Randroid on January 30, 2013, 03:16:28 pm
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No news, is apparently not great news:
http://www.examiner.com/article/yakuza-5-and-yakuza-hd-collection-western-localization-discussed-by-sega (http://www.examiner.com/article/yakuza-5-and-yakuza-hd-collection-western-localization-discussed-by-sega)
I hope this is not the case though and Y5 + YHD get released this year.
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Fuck, I want Yakuza 5 dammit!
Who do we need to harrass?
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The way the topic was titled, I thought we got an announcement...
*Glares at Randroid*
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Right now the best thing that can be done is to help spread the word on the series – tell your friends or others you think might enjoy them, and have them grab a copy of Y4 or Dead Souls.
No, that was your job, Sega...
I like Aaron Webber and all but seriously.....
Oh well, back to this again. At least this means I can safely hold off on any PS3 purchase anytime soon...
Don't know who told them to localize Dead Souls instead of Yakuza 5 but it was a poor decision for sure.
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Yeah, Dead Souls was hot garbage.
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I'd rather recomend 3 over Dead Souls but alright...
Just seems stupid to me, if this were any other company, there woudn't be a problem...
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The way the topic was titled, I thought we got an announcement...
*Glares at Randroid*
Haha. Sorry about that.
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We're back to this again... It just seems odd, since Yakuza 5 is a bonafide seller in Japan, I'd assume that subbing and editing menu screens wouldn't be much of a hassle.
It's a shame to waste this perfectly good M-rated franchise.
Though, in the case of the Yakuza HD Collection, I can only see this as Games-on-demand deal.
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Well since the HD Collection's already translated I really have no idea what the big deal is with that one, though I'd agree, priority should go to Yakuza 5.
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Didn't Yakuza 3 and 4 sell decently in the west anyway? To think that I could be playing a new Yakuza in a few months makes me sad.
Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, Sega won't notice any extra sales of Yakuza 3 or 4. They would have stopped selling those yonks ago.
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Well since the HD Collection's already translated I really have no idea what the big deal is with that one, though I'd agree, priority should go to Yakuza 5.
Like, the Japanese release has English subtitles? Or are you just referring to the subs in the original english releases? I couldn't find this anywhere.
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Sega should release the Yakuza series also on the 360 and the wii u, to get a bigger audience !
That's the main problem i think.
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Yeah, that's a good point. They've been needlessly Sony-exclusive for like 10 years.
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Sega should release the Yakuza series also on the 360 and the wii u, to get a bigger audience !
That's the main problem i think.
Yeah, that's a good point. They've been needlessly Sony-exclusive for like 10 years.
It's a Sony exclusive because Sony was the only one willing to support the series in Japan and is the only one who still helps SEGA market it in Japan.
But really they should go PC.
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Yeah, it's true, Sony's the only one that seems to have bothered with this franchise, though a PC port and possibly iPad and Tablet PC ports wouldn't be a bad idea.
I mean the PC is not competing in the strict sense with the other major consoles and SEGA does have a perfectly good inhouse PC studios that can do great ports... so...
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Like, the Japanese release has English subtitles? Or are you just referring to the subs in the original english releases? I couldn't find this anywhere.
Well I mean that Yakuzas 1 and 2 were both translated and released in the West, so they don't need to be translated again, those translations just need to be applied to the HD Collection. It's not like they need to re-translate the dialogue.
Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering, Sega won't notice any extra sales of Yakuza 3 or 4. They would have stopped selling those yonks ago.
Yeah that's what I don't get; you'd think Aaron Webber would kinda know that, too. If I tell 3 friends to go to Gamestop and buy Yakuza 4, is Gamestop going to send Sega a letter begging to order more copies? No, lol. The time for these games to make their marks sales-wise has long past.
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It's somewhat pathetic that Sega is so mismanaged that their number one selling Japanese game, and current fan favorite game just doesn't come out in the USA.
Sega is a Japanese company. Why do they constantly run away from this fact? People would love them if they just embraced it. The world has an insatiable appetite for Japanese culture, demonstrated by Atlus' entire business model. Exploit it.
And why have they become so risk-averse? Sega used to take constant risks. Some paid off and some didn't, but that's why fans appreciated the things they created. I really feel like the company is just in ruins.
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It also doesn't help that the senior producer Yas Noguchi has left sega as he was the only person to have even bothered bringing over yakuza 4 and dead souls to the west.
it doesn't make sense but sega is know to doing this sort of thing for the longest time.
:(
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Looks like some "good information" might be coming soon regarding Yakuza 5.
http://yakuzafan.com/post/50925972400/my-email-to-sega
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Did he send this to Customer Support? If so, I'd take it with a grain of salt.
But this close to E3, I'm sure SEGA might have something in store for the Yakuza buffs.