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18.03.2024 - 16:43 / videogameschronicle.com / Masayoshi Yokoyama / Ryu Ga / Hiroyuki Sakamoto / Chris Scullion
The director of Like a Dragon developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio says he’s surprised at the initial sales pattern for the latest game in the series, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
In an interview with 4gamer (translated by Automaton), Masayoshi Yokoyama – who was also executive director on Infinite Wealth and helped write the original story – says he didn’t expect the game to sell at such a fast rate from day one.
As Yokoyama explains, the Like a Dragon series – previously known as Yakuza in the west – tends to sell at a slow rate, as word of mouth spreads and the audience eventually gets round to buying it.
However, this time the game shipped one million copies within its first week, a rate Yokoyama wasn’t expecting.
“We gave a press release about how [Infinite Wealth] sold over one million copies worldwide in one week following its release, but it’s really a speed we have never experienced before,” he explains
“Like a Dragon games sell in the long run, rather than right off the bat. This has been the case ever since the series’ early days. It has an adult player base, after all, so there’s no rush, you know?
“People hear about the games from their friends, they happen to come across them, and that’s how the titles grow. That’s why the way [Infinite Wealth] started off was quite surprising to me.”
VGC’sLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth review says the game is “the series at its very best”, calling it a “can’t-miss RPG”.
“Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is one of the best RPGs we’ve played in years,” we concluded. “Excellent combat, a wonderful cast of characters, and a willingness to be incredibly weird make it absolutely unmissable.
“Not only that, but it’s so full to the brim with things to do, we could have probably spent another three weeks with it and not finished everything.”
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth just released early this year, but it seems the next entry in what was previously known as the “Yakuza” series is already in full swing. As spotted by Gematsu, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio announced auditions for the next Like a Dragon game during their latest video update. We don’t know the title of the next Like a Dragon yet, but series director Masayoshi Yokoyama did provide some clarification, saying Like a Dragon: Kiwami 3 (a remake of the third entry in the series) isn’t the next thing on the docket, although it is quite likely to happen someday.
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the team behind the longstanding Like a Dragon franchise, has expressed interest in remaking Yakuza 3, the franchise's third mainline entry that originally released in 2009. The studio had previously remade the first two games of Sega's celebrated Yakuza series, Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Ever since, fans have been eager for confirmation of a potential Yakuza 3 remake.
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