That didn't stop Atlus from region locking Persona 4 Arena.
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Rumor: Atlus to Localize Yakuza 5 in the West
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That didn't stop Atlus from region locking Persona 4 Arena.
Yes please!
This is one of my favorite game franchises & I had given up hope of getting Yakutat 5! If this isn't true, I will cry derply.
Simultaneous releases, both with English and Japanese text and voices. They were literally the same game, but about $20 less in North America. It was an odd situation, and there's no reason why Yakuza 5 would need to be locked.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
Junior Member
if true that is going to be a nice game this year. I can't wait.
Jack Videogames
Member
I don't even know why I'm F5ing this thread!
Yep, no one will know if the same will apply here too. Atlus has never been keen on getting games out in the EU.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Sega Japan doesn't fuck with PC outside of Phantasy Star(an MMO) and Binary Domain(a TPS).
Green Biker Dude
Banned
nooooo why would you waste atlus talent with this series
Pyccko
Member
Goddamn you, Schreier. Goddamn you straight to hell. So who at EGM do I send a bottle of my tears to?
Figured EGM were full of bullshit as usual, fuck them for choosing this to lie about
cj_iwakura
Member
Akiyama has limits.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
DO IT DAMNIT
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Another Yakuza 5 thread, another thousand hopes & dreams crushed thread.
lol, EGM.
charlequin
Banned
When Atlus bought Sega there were basically two scenarios we discussed.
The happy-time, everything's-coming-up-Millhouse one was that because Atlus USA is a high-quality, efficient localization outfit, Sega would just start using them for their own internal games, letting them localize a larger portion of their output at a more efficient cost than they could've on their own.
The negative scenario was that Sega remembered that they already had a localization branch in the US and had mostly fired everyone from it already so they fired everyone at Atlus USA too.
At least based on what we've seen so far, we seem to be leaning improbably, but excitingly, towards the former.
EDIT:
oh shit owned
Atlus is just trying to break people of a bad habit. I'm pretty sure it costs them close enough to zero sales and it doesn't encourage any nonsense from the fan subculture, so I'm gonna call that a win-win.
cj_iwakura
Member
Are you 100% certain that they say the truth? Maybe they are planning a huge surprise for fans #DesparatePerson
I don't think they'd really come out and say, "Oh yeah, we're working on Yakuza 5. Look forward to it sometime this Fall." Maybe in a month or two we'll know if Atlus is actually doing it or not.
Pyccko
Member
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Jason, you're an amazing human being and you do wonderful work at Kotaku. But in this case, you really suck for being the bringer of potentially bad news. ;_;
real_slime
Banned
Yeah, the fact they stuck Haruka in some idiotic dancing minigame really puts me off. It's one of those things that tells you the creators really aren't driving at anything particularly special. I enjoy a lot of the elements of the Yakuza games though, so I'm vaguely hopeful they do localise this. I still haven't played 3 or 4 yet, though, since I've never had a PS3.
Spring-Loaded
Member
sixteen-bit
Member
What about Kenzan?
The idol stuff's actually a very big part of the story, and Haruka's portion has more than just dancing minigames. It's a nice change of pace after Kiryu and Saijima. The second half of her chapters has Akiyama come in, so you still get your fightan.
Yakuza really is Shenmue's successor. Even down to the crushing of hopes and dreams.
Spring-Loaded
Member
That game that was released only in japan five years ago that's getting its own sequel, which was also only released in japan which is coming out after the japan-only fifth entry to the mainline series which, up until that entry, was released outside of japan?
Welp, I don't even have it in me to be sad anymore.
cj_iwakura
Member
Is that a new Sonic game?
thatsafakewebsitebro
Member
Why WOULDN'T they? The series is fantastic.
doctorcdcs
Member
Thanks for ripping my heart out
cj_iwakura
Member
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Why would you do this?!
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
What the fuck am I going to do with Persona games? I haven't given a damn about the series since P3.
So depressed...............
Exr
Member
I'll try it if I get the chance to in English, but as a fan from the first game I have to say the Haruka stuff looks completley uninteresting to me. Can't see a lot of people who buy the series to suplex fools onto concrete liking it either, but I'll keep an open mind I guess...how much of the game would you say consists of playing as Haruka?
cj_iwakura
Member
SwiftDeath
Member
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
Please be true 
Not many people can handle being an idoru.
Are the games not region free?