The excellent Yakuza 0 kicked off a heightened interest in SEGA's series in the West. Since its release, we've had Yakuza: Kiwami and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, and Yakuza: Kiwami 2 is on its way later this year. That's a lot to be getting on with, but there's still a huge gap between 2 and 6 on PS4. Currently, if you want to play every game, you'll have to dig out your PS3 to fill in the blanks before moving on to the latest game on current gen hardware, which isn't ideal.
Fortunately, SEGA has announced PS4 remasters of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 via the latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation, according to Siliconera. Currently only confirmed for release in Japan, these will be straightforward remasters rather than full-blown remakes like the Kiwami titles. The third game in the series will be available on 9th August 2018 and will come with a code for the game's soundtrack. The fourth game will release in the fall of this year, and the fifth will launch in 2019.
No Western release has been announced as of yet, but with the increased popularity in the last couple of years, we'd be surprised if it didn't happen.
Would you play remasters of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 on PS4? Have you been hoping SEGA would fill the gap between Kiwami 2 and 6? Head to the batting cages in the comments below.
[source siliconera.com]
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Nani?! 😱
I'd buy them for sure. Already have Kiwami 2 pre-ordered.
PSX announcement of the western releases, calling it.
Yup.
Going to take this as a sign...
Was only just planning to get back to Yakuza 6 as GOW has been keeping me busy & now we get the news of the remasters?
Going to pretend I never bought Y6, wait for Kiwami 2 (August) & hope the ports make it over here in a timely manner.
Great to have the entire series on PS4 though!!
So, pending a Western release, I will have potentially 500 hours of Yakuza to weigh down my ever swelling backlog. Perfect.
I’m playing Yakuza Zero now and loving it, what a great series.
YESSSSSSS!
I'd buy them again, but only if they were released as a single collection. There's no reason a western release should be off the cards as the only translations that would need to be done are the parts of Yakuza 3 that were cut from the original western release and bringing names of people and places in line with the rest of the series. I believe Shintaro Kazama in 1, 2, and 3's original western releases was called something else so people didn't confuse Kazama with Kiryu's first name Kazuma.
Yes please! Can't play 4 and 5 cause I just can't be bothered to turn on my PS3 lol
Please release them in a single collection for the West, SEGA. We're already so far behind the release schedule, pumping them out one by one, months apart, would be ridiculous.
I rather have kiwami, but remasters is fine too
Trying to catch up with Yakuza, so these are very welcome in the west.
I have Zero and Kiwami already, havnt played them though. Might hold off playing them if all the games come to PS4 wooooo
Yes!
Only on 0 right now, but if these come West, I'll pick up all of them and have the entire saga on one system.
These are excellent news. In my opinion Yakuza 4 is tied in first place together with Yakuza 2 for best story (maybe I have rose-tinted glasses regarding 2 since it's been awhile since I played it). It will also give me the chance to finish 5, since we only had a digital release here I didn't buy the game.
Shock horror another set of remasters
Amazing news! Come on Sega you can do it. I will even buy 3 copies if you bring out a collection and give one to my mum and mother in law for xmas!
@Neolit
"Reminisce" mode. I even loved the name
I'll be getting them, be great to have the full set, will have to take a few months off work to play them all from 0-6 in order too.
I guess 3,4 & 5 were all PS3 games so only really need resolution and frame rate bumpage.
Awesome. Really glad Sega is doing this.
Playstation is on fire. It's almost like PS2 era again.
I probably would get these on PS4. But being the cheapskate I am, I wouldn't have minded finding them on PS3 if the price is right. Good news either way.
Hopefully they'll be in a triple pack when they come to the west.
Just caught up with 3,4,5 on my dusty PS3 and am continuing straight with 6. Even put no no Kuni 2 on hold and God of war is still foil wrapped on the shelf until Yakuza 6 is done.
I hope they do also replace Kiryu's character model in y3 with one from the later games. The stiff hair and big eyes are a bit creepy.
Guess this means I should start 0 soon.
oh i hope this come out here
please SEGA, PLEASE!
Just go ahead and release it in the West, Sega. It needs to happen.
would buy them all! hope they come to the west as well please.
This is our chance to get a version of Yakuza 3 that isn't butchered with cut content, and a physical release of 5. I Would prefer separate physical release, but I wouldn't say no to a collection (Would all 3 even fit on one Blu-ray anyway? They're 20 gigs+ each).
All I know is I hope they release it as a collection, not separate releases.
Off course I’ll want all the Yakuzas on my PS4. Plus, even if it's a simple remaster, here's a chance to finally get 5 on disc, in Europe. Bring them on !
@get2sammyb “i see” oh wait, wrong game.....lol bloody great news! 👍
@wiiware agreed.
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