It appears that the Yakuza series has sold well on the PC. During a Management Meeting, SEGA revealed that the entire series has sold over 2.8 million copies on our platform.
As SEGA stated:
“Due to the expansion of reach to users, as we started the support of PC platform with this series from FY2019/3, we recorded quite strong sales result with unit sales of approximately 2.80 million units worldwide.”
Unfortunately, though, and as we’ve already reported, it looks like JUDGEMENT won’t come out on PC. While SEGA seems interested in porting the game, it has been reported that Takuya Kimura’s talent agency has forbidden the publisher from releasing these two games on PC.
Nevertheless, it’s great witnessing strong PC sales for the Yakuza series. After all, Yakuza Like A Dragon and Yakuza 6 were my GOTY 2020 and 2021 picks!
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The franchise genuinely deserves the strong sales and support. The games story, dialogue, and plot doesn’t have any wokeness. At worst, there’s removed content due to corporate refusal of renewing licenses (which you can easily restore with a mod). The gameplay is consistently fun, the storylines are uniquely interesting and have more substance than other JRPG titles that are just generically uninspired weeb mediocrity.
And this is one of the reasons for not being reviewed as its deserves.
Give Judgment a try if you ever get the chance.
Agree for the most part but you must have missed mama san, hard to believe.
Not my cup of tea but I’m glad to see PC gamers showing Sony that there’s a market for these on PC and that not every PC gamer is a pirate. Suck it Crytek and Ubisoft..
Sony has nothing to do with this
K, not like four of the games in the series aren’t still exclusive to Sony consoles is it?
Sony doesn’t own Yakuza you idiot, Sega does.
I never said they did you double idiot.
Youre saying its got nothing to do with Sony that those four games are still exclusive to Sony consoles. Every other game made it to other platforms except those four but its got nothing to do with Sony… How do you go about calling others idiots?
Sony doesn’t own Yakuza, they don’t make these decisions
It’s all on Sega, this is not hard to understand.
Yeah I’m sure Sega decided to limit their game sales to 1/3 of their customer base just ..because, nothing to do with Sony. /rolleyes
The games were exclusive due to the creators small team, bias and some monetary support from Sony.
Localization was also slow if it even existed because this was originallly a very niche franchise.
Sony has no say on the ports and they have no stake on these games, they don’t own the franchise.
So “buying them to send Sony a message” is f*king dumb, you’re a dumbass.
You’re the most stupid and arrogant poster iv run into so far on this site, and you just admitted it has something to do with Sony. Debate over, you lost son. Don’t expect another reply.
Sony doesn’t own the franchise, begging Sony for Yakuza does not make sense
You’re an ignorant re**rd that refuses to be educated.
Not my loss, stay re**rded
Crytek games are on PC…
You dont say…
While it’s great to see more Japanese games on PC, Capcom remains the only developer with decent PC ports. Would love to see others follow suite.
what are you talking about all the yakuza games were decent pc ports.
Yeah, if we pretend Monster Hunter World/Iceborn/REVillage aren’t a thing.
Yakuza series is seriously overrated and overpriced.
its on gamepass. 3 to 7.
Underrated.
I highly recommend playing this series.
Do not listen to idiots that say you need a gamepad for these games.
I have 100% Completion with M&K and the only bad thing about PC port is wonky camera movement in yakuza 0 and 1. Other than that it plays well on M&K.
Sega has been a long supporter of the PC platform so I am pretty sure that the other games they have published has likely sold decently for them too which is what triggered the bulk release of the Yakuza games on PC.
PC has the most prospective customers by far, even with piracy so it’s leaving a massive amount of money on the table to exclude a pc version. That being said the nasty half arsed pc ports in some cases are terrible. 3 was fine but really needed the kiwami treatment. I played through the whole series and had no problems, turn based combat hopefully will be a temporary thing because I just don’t like it, especially with every corner having an attacker.
Good taste John.
wish it sold more but it’s still good
Nice GoTY picks, John.