Microsoft and Nintendo regretting not getting the Yakuza series

He's gonna be purchasing the rights to the franchise what else would he mean?

literally a lie though, Nintendo got a Yakuza game on Wii U that failed due to releasing at the same time as Pikmin 3(why do companies do this)

in that case op make sure you port the rest of the games over to pc. I'll buy them from you twice thanks in advance

they had 1 and 2 on the wiiu but they sold like shit

>nintendo regrets not getting subpar series that barely sells a million per entry

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pikmin 3 and yakuza have COMPLETELY different demographics
but nintendo didn't really have a foot in the adult market
especially during wii u era

Yakuza is on PC though...

but you aways can touch my penis

Theres six of this shit ?

>barely anyone owns a Wii U at this time
>Nintendo releases a new game in a fairly popular series as a system seller
>other company decides to release their game at the same time
>most people can't afford to buy multiple games at once so they pick the game that's supposed to be a system seller instead.
it's like when Namco released Katamari the same day as Smash Ultimate

>Nintendo regrets not getting a game that is beloved as hell and sells around the same amount their own garbage does

It wasn't on PC when I got it on PS4, and since the PC isn't my primary platform, I rarely double dip unless a game on goes on sale for a really low price.

Too busy touching my penis to touch others, sorry.

Bullshit, the Xbox audience couldn't handle Yakuza. You have to read subtitles. Microsoft doesn't give a shit about games that sell less than a million copies, especially not JPN ones.

Nintendo I can believe, although it didn't do well on wiiU.

Alright I'll do
I'll just play it on my Ps4 because that's the only console I have right now
Thanks

Not sure about the other games, but Yakuza 1 has an English Dub.
Also Xbox has Nier and a bunch of weeb games, I would assume they care now.

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Yet they paid for the development of Bayonetta 2 and 3 and Devil's Third.

>that barely sells a million per entry
>over 11 entries

>thats barely 11 million sales

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I was gonna post this
Didn't Nintendo have it on their consoles and fucking only release in Japan which in turn fucking sold like shit?

what the heck was SEGA's mindset with this one? Yakuza fans would rather play the newer entries, and Nintendo fans in JP wanted to play Pikmin 3...

It was a test to see if there was a market on Wii U for Yakuza games. It bombed super bad so they never bothered to put ports of the newer ones on there.

>Nintendo refused
When? There were 2 (shitty) ports of the first two games on the Wii U

shame the hd ports are better than the remakes they did for ps3

GIB SWITCH PORT
I WANNA PLAY KIWAMI WHILE I TAKE A FAT STINKY TACO BELL SHIT

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it's a shame id buy it on the switch.

i highly doubt pikmin is the reason it flopped.

Games set in a modern Japan setting are somewhat rare for Nintendo systems, these games will probably sell like hot cakes just because of the barely tapped into weeaboo market

Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1 sold over a million in the west which is why those got re-released with Greatest Hits copies.

Retard.

who /breakinzawarudo/ here?

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They were HD PS2 ports on the fucking Wii U. It was gonna flop no matter what.

Nintendo regrets having Star Fox?

I'm too busy showering you in 100 million, 200 million, 10 billion kisses, baby

what does it matter
the series is dead anyway

the yakuza series in unironically too masculine for the average nintendo fan, they just would not be able to appreciate it

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I've only played 1 and 2 on PS2 is the rest of the series worth checking out?

Every mainline game except 3 is worth playing.
In release order you fucking casual.

You played the worst ones by far so yes.

stupid fucking secondary

It's a sony franchise, they will either kill it and bury it, or it will go multiplatform few years down the road.

>except 3

Sorry, meant to say 6.

They'll make an offer
IN CASH

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Nah dude you heard me.
3 is the worst and not worth playing. If you know jap and can play that version then maybe.

3 is a great game despite the axing of substories and hostess clubs. It's still far better than 6.

I guess some people just have shit taste.

I know. Imagine thinking 6 is better than 3.

Fucking bullshit. They're just trying to create fake buzz and controversy.

>saves Bayonetta after Sony and Xbox dont want it
>still creates massive amount of Salt to this day

>saves

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Particularly ironic because Sega did a lot of exclusives on the original Xbox including Shenmue 2, of which Yakuza is basically a spiritual successor of.

Because the WiiU was only powerful enough to run ports of PS2 games.

which one do i get on steam?

0

I can see this, these companies most likely didn't want to put money towards what on the surface looks like a VERY japanese (read: not marketable globably) Too the point that the localization of one of the Yakuza games had the more japanesey side-content stripped out. Now they see that there's a massive market for people in the west who love Yakuza and microsoft and nintendo are regretting not putting their fingers in the pie sooner.

>Snintendo
>Microsnoft

???

Is Kiwami 2 good ? Apparently it runs on the same engine as Y6 so it looks drastically better than Zero and Kiwami 1 at least
Nearby shop sells the steelbok edition for 25€

HOKUTO YAKUZA ON PC NEVER EVER

FUCK

2 is still better in every way except gwaffix.

yeah, it's much better than the first kiwami.
i personally prefer the original version of 2, but kiwami 2 offers a lot of great improvements to 6's combat system.

I really liked it, but apparently I'm not a hardcore nostalgiafag like the rest of Yea Forums.
Plus they brought back Cabaret Club, which as we all know, is the best minigame.

both

Fuck you retard why must you make me feel sad

Nintendo refused the yakuza, not yakuza

Would you say that you were shocked?

they also brought back that shitty clan shit from 6

It's good but faggots who hate anything jap or anime oriented won't like it obviously.

O
Kiwami is trash.

whats wrong with it?

I played Yakuza 0 a couple months ago and it was the most fun I've had with a game in a while. Dead serious interesting main story with off the wall sidequests, lots of shit to do, some surprisingly fun minigames (I don't know how the Cabaret Club game was so addicting), great music, and likable characters. The localization was also well done too.

t. 0fag

no need to be upset because you're a secondary who got called out for it

everything

Kiwami 1's biggest problem is that it's a remake of a mediocre game, which limits the amount of improvement they can make. Plus the Majima Everywhere system gets annoying after a while. Still enjoyable, though.

It was a favor for Iwata. Lots of devs respected him.

why would MS or Nintendo say no to free money?

WiiU had a Yakuza 1&2 port I believe.

They actually had money back then so they were picky on the games they allowed on their systems. Nintendo in particular started taking everything they could get after the Wii U flopped.

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LMAO EPIC

>They refused us back in the PS2/Gamecube days!
How the fuck would we know that to be true. The PS2 was a monster in both sales and jap support. No way they wouldnt actually put their games on a PS console at that time. And please dont use the excuse of "Oh it's not for Nintendo fans because the fanbase "is fulll of kids" or whatever. Then explain to me why there was one on the fucking flop that was the WiiU. The reason is because it's sold like absolute dogshit and they dont want to bother
. Just be honest dev.

>Nier Automata was going to be a PS4 exclusive
>Sony lets it go
>Nioh was going to be a PS4 exclusive
>Sony lets it go
>Ni No Kuni 2 was going to be a PS4 exclusive
>Sony lets it go
>Yakuza WAS a PS4 exclusive
>Sony lets it go
>Dark Souls was going to be a PS4 exclusive
>Sony tells from to fuck off
i wonder how Japs feel about Sony being an American company now

Wtf, these games would be perfect for the switch!
No switch port, no buy Sega.
Nintendo gamers love the Yakuza series too Sega!

The only thing wrong with Kiwami 1 is the lack of posture you have.
Literally everything can you put you on the ground for 15 seconds and you can escape maybe 2% of the grapples.
Majima everywhere was fun

This but unironically.

Nah they're not since they wouldnt run anyways. But yeah we all know what's the goal of your post.

>i wonder how Japs feel about Sony being an American company now
They are pissed with them now because Sony has became racist towards Japanese devs ever since moving to Commiefornia.

NINTENDIES AND XBONES BTFO

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Waiting from some sources because twitter isn't a reliable source

This.

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Nobody fucking do this. Never start with zero. You need to see Majima being an asshole crazy motherfucker before you play 0 to get why he's so pissed off and tragic. Objective best order is 3 (optional) > 4 (watch the movies) > 5 > 0 > Kiwami > Kiwami 2 > 6.

Why the fuck do people start with 0

>WiiU ports of Yakuza are fucking garbage.
>hurr durr nobody wants them.

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Aren't Sega and Sony very heavily involved with the Yakuza?
I can see why Nintendo would be wary of that series

>it's much better than the first Kiwami
Why is everybody talking like this? I know Memejima bad and all, but arguably it had the best combat in the series, while still being somewhat challenging. Kiwami 2's difficulty is a joke, through my whole playthrough of it I died maybe twice, combat is medicore too, heat actions are scarce now, you get the same 3 ones over and over.

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What drug makes this game good? I just can't get into it at all and refuse to feel buyers remorse it's time to force that dopamine.

Weed makes the substories funnier. Booze makes the combat a little harder but you need to be paying attention to the main plot, these games are pretty serious outside the side content.

Nintendo hasn't been active with third parties since the Wii era thanks to weak hardware and not being active enough in the third party market to entice devs. They missed the train on so many third party franchises for two whole console generations. Why do you think they teamed up with Microsoft now, they have to make up about a decade of third parties they missed out on. Tough shit if Microsoft also doesn't have a third party they always wanted.

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I tried plowing through this game on adderall and that didn't work. I think i'll go buy some beer tomorrow and try again.

t. retard

There is no video game that is quite like Yakuza, one of the fucking weirdest series' in vidya.

They aren't even good games really, but you should play at least one of them if you never have, probably 0.

>more enjoyable side content
>more enjoyable story
>combat scenarios are far less annoying since you don't get knocked down by every tap
dunno what you're on about with heat actions being scarce when there's a ton of them you can perform.
kiwami also has the dumb health regen bosses, and the only good styles are rush and dragon (even then dragon is still nowhere near as good or as fun as it was to use in 5)
beast sucks balls now and is only good for its heat actions, and brawler gets replaced with the dragon style once you get the tiger drop.

>You need to see Majima being an asshole crazy motherfucker before you play 0 to get why he's so pissed off and tragic.

It's perfectly fine. I started with 0 and my friend played the others first. We both can understand and appreciate the character developments of characters like Nishiki and Majima, just from different initial presentation, but reach the same end result. Whether or not there is an optimal order of playing the games doesn't matter if they go through them and can understand and enjoy them. It's just that a bad first impression may discourage people from getting into it at all.

Good dose of genuine weebery perhaps. Tried that game once in ps3, I just don't feel it. I finally admit I'm not true weeb.

>no fun allowed

What the fuck are you doing in a Yakuza thread? Go back to your Souls threads.

>more enjoyable side content
I've finished about 35 substories, the only funny ones were "Be my Baby" and the one with the group interview. I'm not saying anything, I'll wait until I finish all of them. As for minigames, there are some fun ones, Virtual Fighter 2, that peeing minigame, hostess club is back, but I feel like they really dropped the ball with karaoke, only 2 new songs, which are just slideshows. I was also very dissapointed with Majima's story.
>more enjoyable story
Yeah, I guess.
>combat scenerios are far less annoying
You couldn't be more wrong, I never had much problem with Kiwami 1's combat, it was an improved version of 0, I don't remember being knocked down by every hit. Meanwhile, in K2 everytime an enemy blocks an attack you get staggered(?), it destroys the flow of battle already damaged by the game running in 30fps, it makes the combat feel damn less satisfying. Seeing the fist bounce off and you being unable to do anything for like half a second is really nerving.
>there are tons of heat actions
I haven't unlocked all of them, but got most. 16(?) of slots are occupied by these "friend throws you a weapon/ helps you with the heat action" type of heat actions. They're really situational, who cares if there are tons of them if only I can use them in one place in the entire game. 0 had unique animation for every action, in K2 you have the same "3 hits with an object".
>styles
Who cares? I'd rather have 2 useless styles and 2 god tier than only one, which is not really fun. It was fun experimenting with them, changing mid-attack and all.

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Why do the Yakuza games have PS3 tier graphics on PS4?

Holy shit these are all just lies. Companies aren't begging Sony to limit their profits. HD development is expensive, Sony WISHES Square Enix, Atlas, and Sega would keep games exclusive to their shitbox. It's the only way they ever justified buying their console but third parties need all the money they can get,l since a single flop could kill their company.

Some of them were multi generation games. 0 is made for ps3 and ps4 so certain aspects are held back certainly

>literally nobody owned an xbox in japan
>gamecube was far far behind in second place
>Sega only allowed development for the PS2 based on the install size alone and fully expected the game to fail just to fire him

Why is nagoshi lying like a bitch? the development is pretty public and it was meant to be a japanese only series. sega america president was in negotiations for close to a year and had to pitch michael madsen and mark hamill just to get some approval.

>Never start with zero
objectively bad advice, do not listen to this man
OP stick to your plan, I started similarly and fell in love with this series

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Nintendo is understandable but Microsoft is full of retard pajeets making horrible decisions everywhere.