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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.
A high-definition remaster of the first two games in the series, titled Ryū ga Gotoku 1&2 HD, was released in Japan on November 1, 2012, for PlayStation 3. [54] The high-definition remaster was ported to Wii U and released in Japan on August 8, 2013, under the title Ryū ga Gotoku 1&2 HD for Wii U.
Yakuza was the first and (until the release of Judgment) only game in the series to feature an English dub. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] The original game's localization and English dub, and the lack of Japanese audio as an option, has been retrospectively highlighted by critics as a perceived flaw of the game's original Western release.
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.
[1] 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.
Yakuza Kiwami 2, a remake of Yakuza 2 in the same style as Yakuza Kiwami, was originally released for PlayStation 4 on December 7, 2017, in Japan, and worldwide on August 28, 2018. [42] The Windows version was released on May 9, 2019, and the Xbox One version was released on July 30, 2020.
[1] 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]
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 ...