Please understand
Yakuza Ishin, released in concertwith the PS4 in Japanasthe best selling (not-bundled) software, is probably never releasing outside of Japan. SEGA sidestepped localizingYakuza 5to put all its efforts towards developingIshin, and it’ll likely go that way for the next title, until theYakuzaseries is lost to us all (who don’t speak Japanese).
But we can live vicariously through thisEdge featureonYakuza Ishin. We can enjoy screenshots of chintzy karaoke minigames we’ll never play. Or hear tell of a bathhouse brawl full of naked men with clouds of steam obscuring their junk, like a cartoonEastern Promises.
And we can enjoy Yakuza Studio head Toshihiro Nagoshi commitment to the fans — just not the Western fans — in not trying to push the PS4 in order to have a PS3/PS4 release. “PS4 is cheaper than hardware used to be, but it’s still not cheap, so I decided we’d be letting our fans down if we didn’t also release a PS3 version.”
Yakuza: Ishin on PS4 is historical in both content and execution[Edge]
