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Yakuza 3 heading West early next year

  • Posted December 8th, 2009 at 17:12 EDT by Adam Dolge
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Sega announced today, via the PlayStation Blog, that Yakuza 3 is heading to the west early next year. Fans have been requesting a western release for months, and those requests are now answered as we’ll see Yakuza 3 released exclusively on the PlayStation 3 in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in March of 2010.

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The western release will feature the original all-star Japanese voice cast with English subtitles.

Aaron Webber, assistant community manager at Sega of America, thanked fans for their devoted support of Yakuza. He said, “Last but not least, we’d like to give special thanks to you guys, the Yakuza fans! Your passion and dedication has helped make this a reality, and we’d like to extend that thanks by letting you submit questions to the Yakuza 3 development team in Japan! To do so, just put *Dev Question* before typing your question here in the comments.”

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  1. netherdragon

    • 12:14pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    will it feature english voice overs or just subs?

     

    not the end of the world but would like subs.

  2. kreepmode

    • 12:15pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     Cool!  Next up, Tales of Vesperia.  Make it happen Namco!!

  3. Staticneuron

    • 12:25pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    Subs!!!!!

     

    I love sega!

     

  4. princevegeta1980

    • 12:29pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    Thats great for yakuza fans, maybe i'll try this one!

  5. PSX_Legend

    • 12:32pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you  thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you SEGA!!! lol

  6. AaronSOLDIER | AaronSOLDIER

    • 12:32pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     YES!!! Definitely getting this along with God of War 3, White Knight and Gran Turismo 5.

     

    "The western release will feature the original all-star Japanese voice cast with English subtitles."

     

    Thats perfect, english subs with Japanese dubs is all you need. No need for english dubs at all in this game.

  7. AZTwiztidJuggla

    • 1:20pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    Good things come to those who wait!

  8. ps3_axe

    • 1:51pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     YEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!! Japanese Voice and english subs! The way it SHOULD BE!!!!! I bought this in Japan this summer, but I will definitely buy it again!

  9. aj7418

    • 1:59pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     *Dev Question* Will you be adding any content or changing anything else besides the subtitles for the games Western release?

  10. Kostchtchie

    • 2:13pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    best xmas present ever :) love the series, 10/10 with jp voices and eng subs also

    thanks Sega/Sony

  11. AaronSOLDIER | AaronSOLDIER

    • 3:15pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     @aj7418 - you need to post that on the PlayStation Blog.

  12. superbeast1370

    • 3:40pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    This is great but it is gonna FFXIII and GOW3 are gonna hurt its sales. PUSH IT TO APRIL SEGA!!! THIS ISN'T THE 90s!!!

  13. Pledius

    • 3:49pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    holy smoke

    FINALLY THEY LISTEND TO THE PEOPLE

  14. danmachine

    • 4:00pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    the japanese demo that you can get from the jap store right now was pretty damn good even within the confusion may pick this up if i have any pennys left 

    i still need to import demon souls! gonna cost like 60 quid :(

  15. *goo

    • 5:57pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    For me, it's dropping in way too late.  There are several 'must buy' games out around the same time  making Yakuza 3 a non-starter.

    Might pick it up when it's price drops a few months down the line though.

  16. AznStrike

    • 6:35pm EST - December 8th, 2009

     Yes! I'm glad that the community is listening to the fans! Now I know what game to buy.

  17. doomsday666

    • 9:34pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. sayeed

    • 10:03pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    why are they releasing gow3 ff13 and yakuza 3 in the same month? pretty stupid if you ask me

  19. Byuu

    • 10:05pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    wooo march is the month of game for 2010

     

  20. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 10:37pm EST - December 8th, 2009

    Awesome,let's just hope it sells a lot better than the first 2,or else might REALLY not see 4 hitting state side.

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