That studio’s name is Ryu ga Gotoku Studio (catchy!), and is currently working on two new titles. The first is a sequel to the PSP’s Yakuza spin-off, Black Panther, which will be out in 2012.
The second? Yeah, it’s Yakuza 5, which will actually be the seventh instalment in the long-running and successful gangster series on a PlayStation console, though information on that one is at a premium (gotta save something to announce at this year’s Tokyo Game Show!).
Mark Ampersand
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 5:14 PMPlaying through Yakuza 4 right now, and it’s not really grabbing me like Yakuza 3 did. Re-using the same engine and even city just comes across as really lazy, and swapping between characters was fun, until the Cop, who was just… dull. Glad I’m playing as Kiryu again now, but it’s been a long slog to get there.
Anyway, hope they decide to re-invigorate the series somehow for 5.
Hanyuu
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 5:43 PMUh oh, could be be another Sonic Team where the developers end up hating the franchise.
Shad
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 7:33 PMNo news on a Of the End localisation? :(
TechaNinja
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 7:54 PMOr the PSP one D: I could only get half way before because there was no walkthrough in English.
Franz
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 8:50 PMlol, classic sega.
Reoh
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 9:15 PMI’m really hating the current trend of pounding out sequels as fast as possible until the franchises bloated corpse finally explodes.