UPDATE:YakuzaProducer Masayoshi Yokoyama later confirmed on Twitter no new game will be announced at the TGS SegaNama. He added there are obviously various projects in movement for the 15th anniversary of theYakuzaseries, and that obviously, this includes game projects. The development team is hard at work so they can announce them someday. Yokoyama apologized for the confusion.
Stay tuned for moreYakuzaand TGS 2020 coverage. The original story is below.
Sega started its TGS 2020 plans with the Sega Fan Meet-up 2020, and the first big announcement was actually Ayana Tsubaki denying a newYakuzagame will be announced during the SegaNama TGS 2020 special. She mentioned she misunderstood the event’s planning, and corrected herself as saying the “latest information of theRyu Ga Gotokuseries” will be revealed, just like what is written on the official schedule.
Ayana Tsubaki(Twitter)is the regular MC of SegaNama, featuring Toshihiro Nagoshi, and she mentioned on Twitter a few hours ago a newYakuzagame would be revealed. Looks like it’s not happening now. She deleted her tweet as well.
SegaNama are monthly stream featuring information recaps, and sometimes new details, on upcoming Sega Atlus games. The stream also includes segments with Toshihiro Nagoshi answering many questions from fans. This ishow Toshihiro Nagoshi ended up talking aboutGhost of Tsushimafor example. We regularly cover SegaNama on DualShockers.
As for the future of theYakuzaseries, the newestYakuzagame is already available in Japan on PS4 since January, and is coming west asYakuza: Like a Dragonon PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X on November 10. A PS5 edition will also be arriving in the future, though no release date was shared for it for now. The series producerMasayoshi Yokoyama insinuated the next main game might keep the JRPG mechanics.
Sega is also reportedly making a newYakuzalive-action movie.
Lastly, it’s also possible a new game is indeed coming but she wasn’t supposed to say it yet. In any case. we’ll know for sure whether a newYakuzagame is coming or not on SegaNama on September 26 at 0700 ETÂ (other time zones). Be sure to check out our schedule forTGS 2020and our specific schedule forSega Atlus eventsto keep track of everything.
