SEGA is expanding the PlayStation 4 line-up of Yakuza games… by a lot.

Although we previously wrote about how Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 could show up on PlayStation 4, it wasn’t officially announced a month ago. (Why these three? Well, aside from 0 and 6, 1 was already remade, and [Kiwami] 2 is coming to the West in August.)

Gematsu reports that a Japanese publication, Dengeki PlayStation, revealed that SEGA confirmed the remastering of the three Yakuza games. They also confirmed that 3’s development is already 90% complete, and they also published the Japanese release schedule: 3 will launch on August 9 for roughly 36 dollars with a download code for the soundtrack, 4 would follow in the autumn, and 5 would hit the shelves in Spring 2019. 1080p resolution, 60 frames per second.

A quick recap of the three games’ stories (you would need a whole week of food if we had to write the synopsis of them properly!): in Yakuza 3, Kazuma Kiryu leaves Kamurocho to run the Morning Glory orphanage in Okinawa, where he wants to raise his surrogate daughter, Haruka Samawura; in 4, three new protagonists enter (Shun Akiyama, Taiga Saejima és Masayoshi Tanimura), and the story is mostly focused around arrests due to murders (or attempts of them), as well as suicide, while 5 has Kiryu starting out as a taxi driver under a different name, and Haruka also grew up to chase an entertainment carrer as an idol, but they both get pulled back to the wars between the yakuza clans, and Kiryu just barely survives the conflicts.

We’re curious to see how SEGA will handle the localization process – with 2, we are roughly eight months behind the Japanese, and we might see all three games on PlayStation 4 by the end of 2019, or 2020.

Source: Gematsu