I figured I'd show all the fellow Yakuza fans on this site another nail in the coffin for the series in North America.

In an interview with Sega Japan, Gamingbolt.com asked several questions regarding the Yakuza spinoff. They eventually brought up localization, asking if there were plans, due to it's success in Japan as the #1 title on the PS4 (Did not know that!)

Sega replied with a simple answer, "There are currently no plans at this time."

Even with the talented team at AtlusUSA, Sega doesn't believe that localization is worth it.

Also, no plans for an Xbone release, but that is pretty obvious...

Fuck You, Yakuza Dead Souls

All we want in a localization is subtitles and the menus in english, everything else can stay japanese. I doubt that would cost that much. They could even release it digital only and cut costs even more.

"There are currently no plans at this time" has been said about alot of games that get localized.

Stop being optimistic!!! There is no reason to live anymore! I'll never find out why the fuck Saejima fights a bear in Yakuza 5 and I'll never find out what the hell is going on in Yakuza Ishin!

That's a very typical answer. It means they're not going to announce it in the interview.

I haven't played much of Yakuza but the last few games seemed to be much worse than the promise the series originally showed. To tell the truth I'm not too torn up about it. I remember Jeff played one of the Yakuza's at the PS4's launch and it looked pretty bad.

Fuck you, Yakuza: Dead Souls indeed. If only because of how much of a complete sack of shit that game is, let alone for how much it lessened the chances of ever seeing another Yakuza game over here again.

Though it's been long enough now that while I'd certainly be happy to hear Yakuza 5 & Inshin being brought over, at this point I'm... sorta compliant over it all.

Here's a few questions: if I were to get this game shipped to me

1. Could I being someone who speaks virtually no Japanese still play it and at least have a moderate idea what's going on?

2. Would it work on a US ps4?

I wonder how many units they'd have to sell to make it worth their while to do basic localization. It can't be that much, can it? Seems like a dumb move on their part. Even if they don't make a killing on it in America, localizing these games is (at least) a show of good faith and will increase their mind share over here.

I love all this yakuza and spin-off talk happening here is pretty awesome. Never know with operation rainfall happening maybe all this drumming by fans will get third party companies looking into bringing them over stateside if Sega fails to do so.

@gaminghooligan: These games are extremely dialogue heavy, so you probably wouldn't understanding anything beyond the broadest plot points. Even if you got all of those, the dialogue itself is kind of the point of the games, as well as the finer details of the plot. If you're really interested in the Yakuza games, 3 and 4 were localized for the PS3. Games 1 and 2 are on the PS2.

they didn't even localized yakuza 5 :<

I'm honestly fine with missing these Japanese history spin-offs, I just want the main series and we aren't even getting that anymore. Can't believe the last game we get is fucking Dead Souls...

He's right though. A lot of games get localized later on.

I've given up on SEGA as a console games publisher. When Atlus was bought, I thought there was some hope in getting the US arm to do the localisation for Yakuza 5 and Ishin. If anything this just gets me worried about Atlus' own games coming across the Pacific.

Is Dead Souls even worth playing? I'm certainly a fan of the first four games but haven't picked up Dead Souls yet, I've been trying to hold onto the fact that I have one Yakuza game to play.

@secondpersonshooter:

Short answer: No

Long answer: User-review!

I slam it any time it comes up in conversation but overall I actually liked it. I think Patrick's comparison to a Halloween episode of your favorite TV show is a great comparison, it's a goofy fun zombie story featuring the Yakuza cast. Gameplay isn't bad but it's not good either, you just kind of slog through it to experience the story and side quests. If you consider yourself a big fan of the series I'd recommend it, but if you only enjoy them to a point or the combat is a big part of why you like Yakuza I'd say skip it. It's only $11 on Amazon, which is an extremely fair price.

http://www.amazon.com/Yakuza-Dead-Souls-Playstation-3/dp/B005TH6BD4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403734701&sr=8-1

I found this great site. http://www.khhsubs.com/index.php

It has a translation of the cutscenes and some other stuff to help you if you import. Or you can just watch the cutscenes. Has some Yakuza 5 stuff too. Since we will never get a western release, this is as close as we'll get.

Maybe someone in the west ought to invest in the tried and true Korean practice of releasing translation booklets. They do it a lot in Korea since so few games actually get translated into Korean. I've got a few lying around from ordering English-only games in Korea.

@viciousbearmauling: Import Dawg.