The news around Yakuzaor rather Like A Dragon now has never been busier, with no less than three games currently in development. And if the series has recently opened up a little more to the West as well as to the Xbox console market, it still hasn’t arrived on Nintendo Switch, to the chagrin of those who only own the Xbox console. Nintendo. We will have to get used to it, because according to Masayoshi Yokoyamawho is the head of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studiothe series has no place on Switch.
Too underground for the Switch?
It is at least his personal opinion that he advances in the columns of GameSpot. Asked about the various studio announcements in recent days, he was hesitant about porting games in the series to the Nintendo console. He indicates that the Yakuza series possesses a very ” underground ”, which does not correspond to the family image of a Switch :
” Do we really want to put a title like this where we walk around and fight with the world and do all that Yakuza stuff, on a Switch? »
No Yakuza or of Like A Dragon on Switch planned therefore, even if one might think that Masayoshi Yokoyama’s image of the Switch is a little too reductive (just take a look on the eShop to see that the console can have an audience very, very adult). But one can only hope that this advice will change over time and as the needs of the studio change.