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Source: Masayoshi Yokoyama, RGG Studio director.

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This is my 4th year in the Year of the Dragon! We are very happy to be able to release the new game ``Ryu ga Gotoku 8'' in such a year. I'm already looking forward to the release, but I hope to be able to make another big announcement sometime in 2024! Please look forward to Ryu ga Gotoku Studio in 2024!

Please let it be another Judgment, I really want to see Yagami again. But there is chance that it may be a new IP instead. Reason for my thinking is this article from 2021: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/yakuza-studio-ryu-ga-gotoku-is-creating-a-new-ip/1100-6498115/

In an interview with Famitsu (translated by Ryokutya), studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama says, "If we have an environment where we can make new works, not just Judgment, we will take on the challenge positively." He also went on to say that there are unreleased titles other than both of the studio's flagship franchises in progress.

 

[Big Baller]

All these Yakuza games

 

[LordCBH]

Give it to me!

 

[Sanepar]

Bring more many more

 

[Spyxos]

They should take a break. Or release some other games, I'm not even 50% of the way through the current Yakuza game. And the next one is coming in shortly. They kill their own niche.

 

[nial]

They need to do a new thing, really.

 

[Majormaxxx]

Is it going to be a brawler for a change

 

[Majormaxxx]

They should take a break. Or release some other games, I'm not even 50% of the way through the current Yakuza game. And the next one is coming in shortly. They kill their own niche.

They still have one more period samurai game to localize. Plus Dead Souls...

 

[Skifi28]

I want a new judgment and it sounds pretty plausible given all the recent releases. Maybe it could also be a Kenzan remastered or Kiwami 3, who knows.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Damn, these guys are crazy productive.

 

[Bridges]

Binary Domain 2 let's fucking go

Please not another Yakuza, I love these games but I will never catch up at this rate. By the time I finish one game they've already released three more and these games are LONG if you're going for all the substories.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Virtua Fighter 6 or Virtua Tennis 5.

 

[El Muerto]

Give us a full game with Kaito and Higashi. 40 hour story campaign. More arcade titles.

 

[Big Baller]

Virtua Fighter 6 or Virtua Tennis 5.

What Id give for a good tennis game

 

[Killer8]

No more Judgement please.

 

[March Climber]

This was the leak a while back:

A part of it ended up being true, so I wonder if they are working on JSR and maybe one of those other new games they announced during TGA. And I wonder if the other announcement is actually VF6. The worst case scenario is that they're working on yet another Yakuza game.

 

[nial]

This was the leak a while back:



A part of it ended up being true, so I wonder if they are working on JSR and maybe one of those other new games they announced during TGA. And I wonder if the other announcement is actually VF6. The worst case scenario is that they're working on yet another Yakuza game.

New Demon Slayer game

Aaaaaand fake, I guess...
Those are from Aniplex.

 

[Nankatsu]

If its no Judgment 3 I'll be so fucking mad I might heat action the person next to me.

 

[Mister Wolf]

It's Virtua Fighter.

 

[xrnzaaas]

They should've made Kaito Files a smaller standalone game like Gaiden. It's the only (modern) RGG content I haven't played because of the bad hours-price ratio.

Anyway whatever it is I'll play it, hopefully Gaiden's success will lead to more "smaller" releases.

 

[March Climber]

Aaaaaand fake, I guess...
Those are from Aniplex.

Here's what was right in the leak:

New JSR game
New Yakuza/Like a Dragon(Kiryu was playable)
Sonic Frontier
Sonic Origins
Persona 4 Golden ported to other consoles
Animated Sonic Intro(It belonged to that Apple Arcade sonic game)

Mario/Sonic Olympics is on the rumor sheet and hasn't been announced yet(but is highly likely of an announcement).

And in another rumor thread from a year ago the following ended up being true: New Crazy Taxi, New Shinobi.
The only games confirmed that didn't start out as rumors were a new Golden Axe and SoR.

That's way too much that ended up being right for one small incorrect part to make it fake.

 

[March Climber]

No, more Judgement please.

Fixed. Adding a simple comma can change an entire post.

 

[mdkirby]

I want a new judgement with more detectiving…if they can get all the detective gameplay from the Sherlock games, but keep their fun combat, that’ll be a great combo

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I'd kill for a new IP that's an adventure game kinda like Shenmue with a story less to do with gangsters.

 

[SCB3]

I need a new Judgement after finishing the last one last week, especially if the Yakuza/LaD is going all in on Turn based combat

 

[ManaByte]

Aaaaaand fake, I guess...
Those are from Aniplex.

Aniplex publishes them in Japan. They’re developed by CyberConnect2 and Sega has the worldwide publishing rights outside of Japan.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I really wish they'd put Lost Paradise on PC, or do another Fist of the Northstar title and multiplatform it.

 

[John Bilbo]

I wouldn't mind a Streets-of-rage-like coop beat em up set in the world of Like a Dragon / Yakuza.

 

[EDMIX]

We need dat Kenzen remake!

 

[tmlDan]

 

[nial]

Aniplex publishes them in Japan. They’re developed by CyberConnect2 and Sega has the worldwide publishing rights outside of Japan.

Which means they don't have any say on its development, but probably the leak comes from someone from SEGA of America or something, so maybe they have that knowledgement (they're doing the localization, after all).

 

[ManaByte]

Which means they don't have any say on its development, but probably the leak comes from someone from SEGA of America or something, so maybe they have that knowledgement (they're doing the localization, after all).

Leak sounds like it was from a marketing power point, so yes.

 

[NanaMiku]

I just want more Akiyama, man

 

[Labadal]

Binary Domain 2.

 

[squidilix]

Final Judgment

 

[semiconscious]

kenzan! i want kenzan!

 

[StereoVsn]

New Judgment game? In any case I want to see more proper sized action Yakuza game.

 

[Esppiral]

Are they going to turn this in to assassin's creed?

 

[EDMIX]

Are they going to turn this in to assassin's creed?

Like how?

 

[Alexios]

What are people talking about too many games, the series exists for 2 decades and we have 9 main games including 0 & the upcoming Infinite Wealth and a couple side games, spin offs, a few remasters and 2 remakes as the first 2 games needed that the most. The west got some later/closer (and didn't get all the spin offs etc.) but it's only later ports that were densely launched, ie Steam/modern systems, would people prefer them staggered for no reason when the games are already done? Even if you include the Judgment games (really no reason to, might as well include their Fist of the North Star game) it's not that many at all, especially given how the last 2 games completely reinvent the gameplay of the series and might as well be a new IP anyway. Anyway, I doubt this will also be a Judgment or Yakuza game but even if so, bring it on, they're always high quality and fun.

 

[Hudo]

I'd love to see what they could do with the Phantasy Star IP.

 

[daninthemix]

I for one can't wait to play through the exact same experience for the 20th time.

 

[TheKratos]

I want more wrestling moves in my Yakuza games. Let me take people to Suplex City bitch!

 

[zapper]

Are they going to turn this in to assassin's creed?

they already did it, even worse. ac at least changes the setting.

I would still buy a new Judgment despite the total disappointment that is the second one,

 

[Companion Cube]

I'd love to see what they could do with the Phantasy Star IP.

I never really looked at them as an RPG studio despite that being the direction their main series is now going!

All the Sega RPGs they could bring back to life…

 

[Hudo]

All the Sega RPGs they could bring back to life…

Skies of Arcadia!

 

[The Cockatrice]

Judgment please.