It doesn’t sound like the Yakuza series will come to Switch anytime soon

Fans have been clamouring for SEGA’s traditional Yakuza franchise to come to the Nintendo Switch ever since the console was first unveiled, but it surely appears as if fan requests have been persevering with to fall on deaf ears. RGG Studio boss, Masayoshi Yokoyam, lately chatted with IGN about the prospect of the series coming to Switch and he was fairly blunt. Mr. Yokoyam continues to be a agency believer that the Nintendo Switch is a “system for a younger audience” and whereas he thinks that maybe the “perception of the Switch, is changing,” he doesn’t really feel as if the Yakuza series is basically appropriate for Nintendo’s versatile system. Here’s what he had to say:

“First of all, whether our games will run on the Switch is probably the first question. The second is, when people are doing things that they don’t want to do, and you lose the morale and urge to do it,.”

“And when it comes to the Switch, it’s kind of a system for a younger audience…it’s how we picture it in Japan anyway, for kids. So do we want to put a title, where we’re going and picking a fight with the world, and doing all this Yakuza stuff, on a Switch? Will people be happy if we do that? And we’re not confident that they will. So that’s why we’re probably not aiming for it.”

“I am, too, thinking that the perception of the Switch, is changing, and maybe because of that one day we will put it out on the Switch, but still in Japan the image of the Switch is more something you put next to the register at a supermarket or something. You’ll line up all those games. If you want to have the Yakuza game right there with all the others…I don’t feel like I want to do that yet,.”

“So yeah, we still think of ourselves as people of the night world. We don’t want to be walking around in the daylight with everybody else. For us, it’s showing this underground feeling. I say night world, but underground kind of feeling is what we want to do.”

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