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30 Jun 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - These Girls Are Auditioning For A Part In The New Yakuza Game SEGA have been auditioning nice young ladies to feature in an upcoming sequel to the Yakuza franchise. Between May 8 and June 19, there were over 1,500 applicants. Groups of 2-3 were interviewed by the game's creators. They were asked to read lines and questioned things such as whether they liked karaoke. Apparently all this is an essential part of making a good game.
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10 Jun 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Sony on Yakuza 3's Localization: "Talk to Sega!" Examiner: "A fan of the series pleaded with Jeff Rubenstein, Social Media Manager of Sony Computer Entertainment America, to bring Yakuza 3 to North America."
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14 Apr 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Sega Encouraged By Yakuza 3 Sales Executive Officer of SEGA Japan, Kawagoe Takayuki, has announced that Sega were encouraged by Yakuza 3 sales.
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21 Mar 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Japanese Gamers' Satisfaction Levels of Recent Releases and Consoles Reported by Famitsu In the latest issues of Famitsu, they reported survey results of gamers' satisfaction levels on recent releases and consoles. There were five possible responses to each game/console: very satisfied, satisfied, indifferent, unsatisfied and very unsatisfied. Each game and console is then assigned a satisfaction score out of 5 accordingly.

Here are the results (arranged in descending order in terms of satisfaction score):

Games:

Demon's Souls (PS3): 4.7/5, Very Satisfied: 82.4%
Yakuza 3 (PS3): 4.6/5, Very Satisfied: 66.6%
Street Fighter IV (PS3,360): 4.2/5, Very Satisfied: 41.4%
Star Ocean IV (360): 4.0/5, Very Satisfied: 37.6%

Consoles
360: 4.2/5, Very Satisfied: 23.8%
PSP: 3.8/5, Very Satisfied: 17.1%
PS3: 3.6/5, Very Satisfied: 16.6%
NDS: 3.4/5, Very Satisfied: 19.1%
Wii: 3.2/5, Very Satisfied: 8.2%
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19 Mar 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Yakuza 3 Ships More Than 500,000 Copies in Japan; Yakuza Series Ships 3.2 Million Globally Sega announced today that Yakuza 3 has shipped more than 500,000 copies in just 3 weeks in Japan, and the Yakuza series has shipped 3.2 million copies globally.

They also have various plans to thank the fans of the series.
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4 Mar 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Yakuza 3 has a massive opening - 380K (Ps3's 2nd best selling debut after MGS4) According to this blog's early Media Create numbers, Yakuza sold 380,000, Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid (PSP) sold 200,000 copies.

This is PS3's 2nd best game debut after MGS4
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3 Mar 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - PS3 Exclusive : Yakuza 3 Sold 300,000 PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) went on sale February 26. How'd it do? Let's hear what its designer Toshihiro Nagoshi, has to say: First and foremost, it sold 300,000 copies.

Thank you very much.

If this figure is correct, it would mean that Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 has already debuted in the top ten PS3 game life-to-date sales. As impressive as 300,000 copies sold, it falls short of PS3 first week Japanese big boss Metal Gear Solid 4. The stealth action game shifted 465,000 units.
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2 Mar 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Updated: Yakuza 3 Is Already A Success Well, it looks like the game is a true success in Japan because Enterbrain, the publisher of Famitsu, has confirmed that Yakuza 3 has sold over 232,000 units in Japan during it first day.
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21 Feb 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Yakuza 3 Extended With Eight Weeks Of Extras Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) isn't kicking in Japanese PS3s yet. Still a week to go before it comes out and Sega is already teasing the future.
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21 Feb 2009
PS3 News from N4G | Yakuza 3
PS3 - Yakuza 3 - Yakuza 3: Downloadable Content Will Be Free The game hasn't released in the United States, yet, but it seems that SEGA has the downloadable content all figured out. When speaking on DLC, SEGA confirmed it's plan for releasing the future downloadable content for Yakuza 3 in a very elaborate manner.
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