Yakuza Kiwami Dev Confirms Physical Switch Release, Limited Run Distributing

Glad its getting a physical, but if they're saying stay tuned...
Then LRG is 100% doing the physical sadly

Remember how Masayoshi Yokoyama, head of Ryu Ga Gotoku, and former series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi said that Yakuza was too "underground" for Switch and that it was not the "ideal platform"? Let's hope we prove them wrong.

Game is 22.9 GB. Damn, that is a lot. Will have to wait on this later sadly.

But I will get it if it runs well on Switch tho. I MIGHT actually wait on a physical version for this then just in case.

@HotGoomba This is our chance to show them! As someone who's heard good things about the series for years, I'm excited to finally try one for myself!

If it's limited run games, I swear I'm going to lose it

imagine when they announce it... but for the switch's successor...

People here whining and moaning about LRG when they're probably the only chance we have of getting an all-on-cart release of this.

@SillyG Indeed, because poor, indie, 3-person studio Sega, who has no other resources, couldn't possibly afford to self-publish a physi... OH WAIT...

Im not into this series (they talk too much), but I really respect it's dedication to absurdity.

I still hope we get the rest of the games on the Switch later down the line. Zero is still my favorite along with Kiwami 2.

Great news, hope they'll bring Kiwami 2 to the Switch as well, and the rest of the games to Switch 2.

At least they had the decency to say a physical is coming before the digital launch.

@Edd-O Kiwami 2 barely ran on PS4, there is no way in hell they're gonna bring it over to Switch

@SillyG If LRG is the only way, then I’ll just hold onto my PS4 copy and call it good. I’ve got every main game physically there and every one available on Xbox, I don’t need to kowtow to LRG for a Switch copy as well.

@EVIL-C : Just like all of the other poor, destitute publishers who skimp on the cartridge, as Sega would likely have done if they had bothered with a wider retail release at all. I'm just glad that we'll have a physical option at all, even if it's a little unideal.

@dskatter : It's also available without DRM on PC via GOG, so, anyone with a handheld gaming PC should spring for that instead (and one could make their own physical back-up, should one be so inclined).

@SillyG What remains to be seen is if other regions will see the announcement of a standard retail release.. 🤔

@EVIL-C : Given the age (and size) of the game, I can't say I'm particularly optimistic.

Take notes, 2D Boy/Tomorrow Corporation/Spike Chunsoft, this is how you announce a physical version (before the digital version releases)

If the whole game is on the cartridge I'll definitely buy it.

I'm glad they are taking notes from Capcom and choose to release a physical version later. This means if the game did released digitally and still had issues, those could be fix before the physical finally happen.

Whoa Komodo141, only here for 4 hours and already got the three strikes. Kids nowadays doesn't know the meaning of respect.

@Serpenterror : Created an account just to call me an idiot for some reason and troll me. I suppose I should be flattered.

Death, taxes, and me buying Yakuza on yet another platform

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, hundreds of hours of fallout may of caused my brain to suffer severe radiation poisoning. Why are we getting this before Zero? Was Zero on an older platform? Also I agree with previous comments, great to see a physical release, but no code in a box please.

This just went up on LRG LOL!

@Fighting_Game_Loser It is LRG.

https://limitedrungames.com/products/yakuza-kiwami-switch-ps4-xbox

@SillyG It come and gone faster than Concord 😂

I'm so tired of these giant multi-billion dollar publishers cheaping out on making their own physical print runs and working with Limited Run instead.

It makes sense for Indie games to work with them and LRG was made for those indie games to have physical runs to begin with but now Sega, Microsoft, Konami, Capcom etc are all just doing this regularly and it's so slimy and such complete BS especially to people from other continents of the world.

@Serpenterror I didn't even know there was a 3 strike system. Cuz if there was, I'd probably have gotten banned by now over things I say in my sleep drunken ramblings that I wake up next week to think were stupid to get involved with.

I imagine it was just because the account was created expressively to troll.

Stop doing physical releases through Limited Run!

Why is there a photo of Yakuza 0 with no context? Is that a new release?

A 32GB release for just US$35 (budget release territory!) while virtually every other publisher until now has been screwing us over?!

Probably the quickest way someone could talk me out of a sale, outside of the box containing nothing but a punch to the face.

@Itachi2099 If it means getting DMC3SE+ on a physical game card, I'll take what I can get.
And while I'm not as interested, Ghouls 'n Ghosts Resurrection also deserves a lasting life too

@vesemir0 Kiwami is the remake of the first game on PS2.
Zero came out late into the PS3's lifespan but was localized on PS4

@Itachi2099 Same. I've been fed up with this for years. It's only getting worse now as more of the worlds top publishers are all contracting with LRG; now they're printing stuff that already had normal, standard retail releases, at least on PS4, like Kiwami 1 and 0. Ugh...

I'm tired of paying international shipping and Import tax for stuff that I would buy in a regular and normal shop.
At least, this pretty much confirms they will pay for the big carts, and put the full game in it. Otherwise, business will collapse. The only thing we can expect from them is having the full game on cart. I know that Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP might need a patch, and not I'm not entirely sure all games are 100% complete, but we would have never, ever got a game like Doom Eternal physically (the proper way) if it hadn't been sold by them.
That's the ONLY good side.

I vehemently DESPISE Limited Run.

Overpriced products, abysmal sales quantities, terrible distribution methods and always delayed with every product delivery.

Why the heck do these companies still partner up with this loathsome company?

Sickening.

So no European distribution then? I know Switch is region free but I’d rather not use LRG if someone else is distributing in Europe.

The file size is massive, so I intended to get it physically.
But Limited Run, so I guess not.

Can't say im a fan of LRG. It just strikes me as 'consumer friendo'-ism in it's purest sense where its push is to produce physical copies of previously digital games (nothing wrong with that) but it's such a limited run (pun intended) and something you have to wait significantly longer for to release with no specified release date. All that and taking in the import fees for places for Europe, it doesn't seem worth it in the end. That and I'm not a huge fan of their over bloated special editions.

On the flip side, I can understand why some companies like Sega or Konami would be reluctant about going physical on certain titles but I don't know. That and LRG are a smaller company than those big ones.

In the interest of balance, I'll likely get it digitally and I'm looking forward to the digital release of Ninja 5-0 from LRG so I'm a hypocrite ha

Please don't be LRG.

I skipped Doom Eternal because of them.
I skipped Alien Isolation because of them.
And surprise, I did not get them digitally either.

I see in this comment section everybody hates LRG so that's nice.

Now Sega and other big companies out there, can we stop the hypocrisy?

I remember when I was trashed a few years ago here on NL for speaking the truth about how LRG’s business is toxic. I hate them mainly for releasing their games ONLY in the US, which is basically saying FU to European gamers like myself.
The definition of the rotten apple on gaming

Well they just lost my purchase by going Limited Run Games, unless I can find it at a separate retailer down the road but I can't promise I'll still remember that this game exists by then (the Switch library is just too big, which is a good problem for Nintendo to have I'm sure).

@Flashlink99 you don't have to go very far, even for us here in Mexico it's already a big FU.

I remember someone from RGG saying the Switch is for kids, and people here swore to never play any Yakuza game.

@Itachi2099 agree. Not fair on people that only own switch I wouldn't import as prob have pay more at customs too

Sega really aren't helping themselves here. This will probably now become another case like Yakuza on Wii U's sales. I live in the UK, so won't be importing this and certainly won't be using up 22GB of my systems memory on this game.

Why are they releasing another physical version for PS4? Is this version better than that one from 2017?

Good, hopefully GameFly will pick it up.

@Flashlink99 Not sure what you mean in the US only, when they ship the games in most places around the world.

Unless you are talking about they should get different rating versions like Pegi and have buildings set up in other places in the world, but I don't think that will happen anytime soon.

As long as it's affordable then I will take a gamble.

Physical release sweet...

[Limited Run Games]

Nevermind.

sigh.... it was HAD to be Limited Run eh?

@SillyG play-asia could've done it and CDPR did it with Witcher 3.

lol. Can they not bankroll physicals for Sega games if it’s not Sonic now? Little reason not to wait for a sale now.

@IceEarthGuard I know, but it’s incredibly expensive to get my hands on an LRG game due to custom taxes and it takes AGES for anything to come from the States. It doesn’t help that my country, even though it’s in EU, is not fully integrated into Schengen, so goods tend to come a bit harder here than in the rest of the Union…
And in the eventuality that some game stores get to sell some LRG games, they come stupidly expensive (standard editions going for almost 100 euros or over)
All that said, F LRG!!!

Wonder who’s handling the EU/UK release?

I just hope we can get the rest of the series on the switch and its successor.