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[Thief1987]

Announcement from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio | セガ公式サイト

2021 marks Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s 10th anniversary. As we reach this 10-year milestone, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio will transition to a new structure.

ryu-ga-gotoku.com

Sequel to Like a Dragon is in development. Masayoshi Yokoyama is the new studio lead.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Happy to see Nagoshi-san gone. Maybe more creativity will come back to SEGA as well as making more games that will work in the west.

 

[GymWolf]

Shit, hopefully the quality of their games is not gonna decline.

 

[cireza]

Hopefully SEGA can finally move on from this series.

 

[YukiOnna]

Hopefully SEGA can finally move on from this series.

Thankfully, they confirmed the 8th game is in development with this announcement.

 

[Miles708]

Daisuke noooooooo!

 

[drganon]

Sucks but I'm hopeful the rest of the team will be able to carry on and maintain the same level of fun and quality the previous games had.

 

[Aion002]

Hopefully it is for the best.

Working many years on the same series might end up being stressful, so whatever they try now I hope it is successful and that the people that took their position will be able to keep delivering great Yakuza games.

 

[SaturnSaturn]

Noooooooooooo!!!!

 

[yewles1]

Damn...

 

[Keihart]

Pretty big hit, not to mention that Ryu Ga Gotoku is one of the few tried and true franchises that Sega has now, with almost bi-yearly releases and seemingly never bombing.
It was also a game that Nagoshi had to fight to get greenlighted, so he is the passion behind the projects, at least Kiryu got his deserved send off with 6.

 

[GrayFoxPL]

Yakuza gonna suck now.

 

[Soltype]

Nagoshi is going to be missed, dude legit helped make some of the best games ever made.

 

[Orta]

Anyone tried saying that thread title ten times in a row, real fast?

 

[BaneIsPain]

A great loss but at least Ueda is back at sega.

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Oh well, thankfully the writer stayed, so the stories shouldn't be affected.

 

[yurinka]

Do we know where are they going?

 

[Hugare]

Do we know where are they going?

Heard a rumor that Nagoshi is going to China, probably Tencent

I hope to God that this is not true

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Do we know where are they going?

NetEase

 

[Thief1987]

Do we know where are they going?

There was a rumor about a month ago that Tencent trying to poach Nagoshi, maybe they succeed in this.

 

[LordCBH]

Hopefully SEGA can finally move on from this series.

 

[Nankatsu]

Reads the news.
Automatically starts singing Baka Mitai.