Can't they just release english sub via PSN?
Keep hope alive! It seems SEGA America's Ray Almeda misspoke and gave his own personal opinion to The Examiner that Yakuza 3 will not be released in the States because of subpar Yakuza 2 sales.
The Examiner has since run an update, explaining those remarks were not "official SEGA statements." The Examiner adds, "SEGA still hasn't made any mention of an upcoming release or revealed plans to release it stateside."
Why would Sega do that?
A SEGA spokesperson told Eurogamer there are "currently no plans" to release the game in Europe.
Its situations like this i wish the PS3 was hacked. At least then there would be a chance of a fansub mod.
Also, SEGA please stop blamming Y2 poor sales. You released it in the US 2 years after the PS3 was out, what did you think would happen?
Also, SEGA please stop blamming Y2 poor sales. You released it in the US 2 years after the PS3 was out, what did you think would happen?
If people didn't buy Y2 they won't buy Y3. I thought Y2 was the best game of 2008, but I was the only one it seems like. If the gaming community would like Y3 to be released in the west we would have to start a campaign and buy a lot of Y2 copies, preferable directly from Sega. But people won't put their money where their mouths are.
I didnt buy Y2 but sure as hell want to have Y3. Y2 came out at a time when i had no interest in PS2 games, if a game wasnt on the next gen systems i wasnt going to buy it. With the PS3/360 userbase as it is currently i think Y3 would be well recieved as long as it is actually a good game.
Take a few games from this gen that did well, say fallout3 for arguments sake. Id bet that would have flopped had it came out on the ps2 at the same time as Y2 also.
There is virtually zero gameplay difference from Y2 to Y3, and zero market appeal difference either. If you didn't want to buy Y2, which you didn't, you don't want to buy Y3 either. And you are a good representative of the gaming market at large.
BTW, if you want to know how a subtitled Y3 would play, go play Y2. Maybe you'll like it.
Erm i said i didnt buy Y2 but i would buy Y3
The market apeal may be the same but the market it would be apealing within is different.