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Yakuza 5 is still due out on the PlayStation 3 this year, with SEGA attaching a mid-November release window to the oft-requested brawler. The game's currently available to pre-order on Sony's digital plaza, but is tagged with a place holder 31st December launch. "Unfortunately, it's a little later than we would've liked, and a few weird development bugs that popped up in localisation caused the delay," the publisher explained. "Without getting too technical, there were just certain parts that didn't like switching the Japanese text out for English, and we had to actually search through the source code to find a fix, taking more time than we expected."

While it's nice to know that the title's approximately four weeks away, we are worried that it's going to get short shrift in a month that will also play host to Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4, and Star Wars Battlefront. Here's hoping that fans will pick it up anyway, because if there's any hope of Yakuza Zero getting localised, then this is going to need to shift a few thousand copies at the very least. The pressure's on.

[source blogs.sega.com]