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Yakuza 6 has sold as many copies overseas as it has in Japan. First for series.
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*still waiting on Yakuza 3,4,5 HD for PS4*
I bought 6 already though.
Such a good series. Never disappoints me.
I bought 6 already though.
Such a good series. Never disappoints me.
With these news I can see the release on new platforms, obviously if they want really to make the franchise bigger.
Hopefully that's more to do with Yakuza growing in the West and less to do with Yakuza declining in Japan.
Having finished Kiwami 2 last weekend. It's time to finally go and play the final chapter of the Kiryu story
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I was going to copy what I read but I just decided to type while half paying attention while playing Hitman. If someone could fix it, that'd be great.
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Well yeah, they milked Yakuza a lot in Japan. It's oversaturated there and 6 sold much worse than previous entries there.
Smart to have worldwide releases to cover that, but they should slow down a bit in releases.
Smart to have worldwide releases to cover that, but they should slow down a bit in releases.
I really wanna play 6 but after only getting into the series at 0 I don't want to start skipping around and ruin the story for me.
Yakuza has become one of my favourite series though and Kiryu one of the best protagonists in gaming.
Yakuza has become one of my favourite series though and Kiryu one of the best protagonists in gaming.
Maybe OP bought one copy after that tweet so west has now x+1 and Japan just x
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Note that it doesn't mean that it sold as many in the west as in Japan, because Yakuza is also very popular in Asia in general.
Japan + Asia = 500k shipped+digital
It's probably close. like 800-900k.
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Adjusted the headline since the info was from SEGA Sammy's report, as per below:
This changes a lot then. By end of 2016 Yakuza 6 had shipped 500k in Japan and Asia.
Total Japanese sales by end of 2017 were 361k.
"As much as" sets the WW total at 722k of which you'd assume ~550-600k are in Asia and Japan
Edit - ah im excluding digital.
Much, much smaller install base as well. But I hope most people are aware of that when comparing numbers.
Either way, good news, so hopefully nothing gets skipped ever again, and that survey a while back that asked if we were interested in crossovers means they'll fill one of the gaps by giving us Ishin next year...
No wonder Sega is looking at worldwide simultaneous releases. Overseas markets are becoming increasingly important to this series.
As of June 2018, 900k copies WW, so i assume they are close to 1 million now https://gamingbolt.com/yakuza-6-has...-copies-worldwide-according-to-series-creator
Extremely happy to see this. It's currently my GOTY and wow what a fantastic game. Can't wait to play the HD ports/remasters of 3-5. Keep it coming Sega.
