Xbox Series X’s biggest Japanese launch game isn’t releasing in Japan
Yakuza ‘delayed indefinitely’ in the region
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Xbox Series X/S’s biggest Japan-made launch title, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, won’t be released in Japan.
That’s according to a report by local publication Game Watch, which reports that release of the next-gen version of the action-RPG has been “delayed indefinitely”.
According to Sega, a Japanese release “has not been officially announced by us,” it told the publication.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon has been available for almost a year in Japan, having released for PlayStation 4 in January. In the West, the game will also release for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on November 10.
Further complicating the game’s release schedule, a PlayStation 5 version of Yakuza won’t release until March 2, 2021, Sega recently announced.
In VGC’s Yakuza: Like a Dragon review, our critic Matthew Castle called the game “hugely entertaining”.
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Yakuza’s new direction maintains the series signature drama and deckings, while finding rich new comedy in its weirdest beatdowns yet,” he wrote.
Xbox Series X recently sold out of pre-orders for the second time in Japan.
Given Xbox’s historically poor market performance in Japan, Series X and S stock allocation is unlikely to have been high for the region’s pre-orders. Regardless, it’s a positive start in a country where Xbox has typically struggled, but one which it recently claimed had become its fastest-growing.
Commenting on the pre-order performance in September, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said he was humbled but added that it was “the first step in a much longer marathon.”
“It humbles me to consider how well the Xbox Series X/S has been welcomed by Japanese fans,” he told Famitsu (translated by VGC).
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