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Yakuza: Like a Dragon was the best selling print game during its first 4 days on sale in Japan, with 300,000 copies sold. [42] By March 2020, a total of 450,000 digital and physical copies had been sold in Japan and Asia. [43] By December 2023, Yakuza: Like a Dragon had sold 1.8 million units worldwide, with 400,000 of those units being sold in ...
Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline.
The primary protagonist of the Yakuza / Like a Dragon franchise is Kazuma Kiryu, who is playable in every numbered entry of the main video game series through Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. Some games, such as Yakuza 4 and Yakuza 5, feature multiple playable characters, with players switching between them at predetermined points in the story.
The game was conceived to expand further on Kiryu's backstory between the events of Yakuza: Like a Dragon and its 2024 sequel, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. As such, the story of the game follows from Yakuza 6: The Song of Life then merges with the storyline of Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
Development started shortly before the release of Infinite Wealth, and was first hinted at by Yokoyama in December 2023. [7] Yokoyama estimated the main story to be 1.3-1.4 times larger than that of Gaiden, while the adventure section is much bigger due to the addition of new locations.
Like a Dragon, formerly titled Yakuza outside Japan, is a role playing video game series developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku and published by Sega. The series debuted in 2005 with the release of Yakuza on PlayStation 2. By 2022, the series sold over 19 million copies.
The series borrows the characters and setting of the original 2005 Yakuza game as well as its 2016 remake Yakuza Kiwami, [2] but the story is a loose adaptation and follows an original plot, though some major plot-points are retained. The project was initially announced as a film before being retrofitted into a television series instead. [3]
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth [a] is a 2024 role-playing video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega.The game is the ninth mainline entry of the Like a Dragon series, serving as a direct sequel to Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2020) and a spin-off of Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (2023).