SEGA 'Not Sure' If Yakuza Ishin's Feudal Japan Setting Would Appeal to Western Gamers

release everything related to yakuza including dead souls may be they should bundle both as collection.

After getting into the Yakuza games last year and finding out about Ishin, I really want to play it if it's brought over to the west.

Odd statement by Sega, but oh well.

Isn't this SEGAs default comment on Ishin coming West? Feels like they've said this for years

What do we have to do to make it clear it would? They said the same damn thing about the mainline games until they were dragged kicking and screaming into localising them again.

in the time they've spent talking about this game they might have as well translated it lol

Feudal Japan settings are great for video games and movies.

I’ll play them for sure.

Sucker Punch a Western Studio Making a Feudal Japanese Samural Game Would Say OtherWise Sega

cough Sekiro cough

Someone needs to direct them to Sekiro’s sales. That all happened this year.

For some unknown reason, Japanese publishers seems to not have any self steem, there are entire communities focused on translate games and all kinds of content that Japan just don't release in West for absolutely no reason.
Sega always do the same, they're always afraid to localize games no matter how much their fans beg...the reason is beyond me.

Well, to be fair, Western perceptions of samurai usually differ from the actual historical background. As much as Yakuza is nuts, these games are definitely steeped in history and maybe they just feel that without high school History knowledge of the time period it wouldn’t be fully appreciated?

ubisoft say the same sort of thing, they said years ago that we'd all had enough of ninjas and samurai, they've being saying the same thing about zombies for at least 10 years

Standard Sega/Yakuza statement of the year.

@nessisonett Crazy Thing is Your Average Japanese Person Doesn't know Much about The History Ether unless Its Going to be For a Test

I don't have any knowledge of feudal Japan but that wouldn't stop me buying a western release of Ishin in no time flat! I'm more than happy to do a bit of research to understand more if it was necessary - I'm fairly sure most folks look up extra info on our various favourite games anyway so c'mon SEGA!

You could argue that Yakuza itself has had difficulty in the west, yet here we are now, with multiple titles in the series doing well since 0's release, not to mention Judgment's recent western release.

C'mon Sega, do it.

For a bit more context, direct link to the IGN stream cited by that twitter post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ4mJRsfBCs
Yakuza section starts a little before the 3 hour mark, specific question (re possible remaster / western release of Kenzan, Ishin & Dead Souls) at about 3:03:30.

EDIT: oops, looks like a longer version of the archive got uploaded & the timestamp I gave is now wrong.

I need this game! Sega do the right thing.

Wow they don't know there gamers in the west we love japan and samurai's.

Sega!!!!!! Sort it out. Yes we are interested in Ishin. Have wanted it for years since the japanese release

They were wrong about the main Yakuza series not doing well, and they are wrong now, especially when it comes to games about samurais.

@dancingstar93 Thanks, I was waiting for this to be archived. Have added it as a source!

I would probably be more interested in a feudal Japan setting than a standard Yakuza game

@ralphdibny Same here. Always wanted for this to come out our way, over the main series.

Gimme everything Yakuza, please.

All they need to do is look at western sales figures for

• the yakuza series
• nioh
• sekiro

I mean it’s a no brainer.