Dragon Quest X and Yakuza 3...U.S. releases anytime??....

[dave4shmups]

These are 2 titles that I am really looking forward to. I'm a big Dragon Quest fanboy, and X is supposed to be a Wii exclusive, yet I've heard nothing about it this year. Same with Yakuza 3 on the PS3, it looks great, but in the E3 and TGS coverage this year, everyone was talking about 4! I think 3 needs to come out in the U.S. first, but that's just me.

[CMoon]

There was rumor that Yakuza 3 would get a US release, but I can't say much more. I could never confirm the source of the rumor, so I'm treating it as such. Honestly I'd be thrilled to see DQ 9 get it's butt out in the US.

[neist]

I'd say Yakuza 3 has a snowball's chance in Hell. If I'm not mistaken, Sega has already commented on passing on it, so it'd have to be picked up by someone else. I wouldn't be surprised if Ignition picked it up, to be honest. Shane B. was a big Yakuza fan, and he IS one of the people now that make decisions as to what they publish.

As far as DQX goes, I think you're a year or two too early to be asking about that. There's practically no information on the game, let alone information on a international release. We probably won't even hear about a Japanese release until next TGS.

[ZOM]

I thought it was pretty much decided that Ignition took the rights for RgG3 but yeah, I take it as a rumor, here's hoping they're "secretly" working on localization. If not now, we'll never see this.

Also, all the RgG4 coverage in TGS'09 changed my mind: SCREW 3, I WANT YAKUZA 4! DAMNIT!!

[CMoon]

I want both.

[dave4shmups]

I want both.

Same here.

[ZOM]

Yakuza fans rejoice!

NA: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... ches-west/

EU: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... g-in-2010/

\(^o^)/

[CMoon]

Yes, I just read this on Gamefaqs. Don't know why it is taking Sega so long to figure out whether to localize games or not, but its great news regardless!

[Cthulhu]

I don't think DQ IX (you did mean IX, right? ) has officially been announced, but SE filed for a trademark on the English version of the title... so yeah, it's effectively confirmed for release here. Just give them a bit, I'm guessing they'll try to space it pretty far away from FF XIII.

[Jockel]

No, he meant X.
But afaik that one doesn't even have a japanese release date.

[Shocky]

Yakuza fans rejoice!

NA: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... ches-west/

EU: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... g-in-2010/

\(^o^)/

And there was much rejoicing! Luckily PS3 games cannot be pirated, so it might even sell well enough that they release Yakuza 4 too. I was in Tokyo Game Show and Yakuza 4 had huge visibility there, they had a throne and some chicks like the AV actress Rio posing next to it, and some cute dancing chick and everything, even some mystic yakuza den, but I didn't have enough time to stand in line so I don't know what was behind the door. I also met Toshihiro Nagoshi there, he was watching the RgG stage, clearly content with the crowd his creation was attracting

But... what about Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan?

[dave4shmups]

Yakuza fans rejoice!

NA: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... ches-west/

EU: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... g-in-2010/

\(^o^)/

And there was much rejoicing! Luckily PS3 games cannot be pirated, so it might even sell well enough that they release Yakuza 4 too. I was in Tokyo Game Show and Yakuza 4 had huge visibility there, they had a throne and some chicks like the AV actress Rio posing next to it, and some cute dancing chick and everything, even some mystic yakuza den, but I didn't have enough time to stand in line so I don't know what was behind the door. I also met Toshihiro Nagoshi there, he was watching the RgG stage, clearly content with the crowd his creation was attracting

But... what about Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan?

Nice find Shocky, and excellent news!!

[CMoon]

Scooping someone on Gamefaqs (coz news starts on the internet); Squeenix just registered a trademark for DQ9 in the US:

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=106838

So it seems its arrival is inevitable. Yay!

[ZOM]

Yakuza fans rejoice!

NA: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... ches-west/

EU: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/ ... g-in-2010/

\(^o^)/

And there was much rejoicing! Luckily PS3 games cannot be pirated, so it might even sell well enough that they release Yakuza 4 too. I was in Tokyo Game Show and Yakuza 4 had huge visibility there, they had a throne and some chicks like the AV actress Rio posing next to it, and some cute dancing chick and everything, even some mystic yakuza den, but I didn't have enough time to stand in line so I don't know what was behind the door. I also met Toshihiro Nagoshi there, he was watching the RgG stage, clearly content with the crowd his creation was attracting

But... what about Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan?

Yeah I've seen the fancy throne in some TGS videos.

As for Kenzan!... Seeing that apparently it was already a big stretch for sega to get everything started to bring over RgG3, I don't see them showing interest in Kenzan! at all. RgG3 had lots of petitions & Internet-bitching going, so it was easy for sega to more or less calculate if the interest is high enough and bring them profit with a "budget"-release(no English VA to waste money on).