Sega names PC alongside PS4 as platform for Yakuza 6 in quarterly report

Sega may be releasing Yakuza 6: The Song of Life for PC. The game is already available on the PlayStation 4, but now Sega has mentioned the game in an overview when announcing the quarterly figures, where in addition to the PlayStation 4, the PC is also mentioned as the platform.

It is possible that the presentation in the report on the quarterly figures is incorrect and that there will at least be no PC version for the time being, partly because the stated April release date is that of the PlayStation 4. However, releasing a PC version would fit in with a trend. Sega already released Yakuza 0 for PC on Wednesday and will also release a PC port of Yakuza Kiwami sometime later this year.

Sega Sammy, the holding company in which Sega and Sammy are brought together, did not have a good quarter in terms of turnover. Compared to the same quarter a year earlier, this figure fell by almost 36 percent to 531 million euros. Profit fell by 97 percent to 2.6 million euros. According to Sega, the popularity of existing titles through digital distribution channels is declining; the company did sell more physical games, from 4.56 million a year ago to 5.7 million in the past quarter. According to Sega, the revival is mainly due to titles such as Persona 5 and Yakuza 6.

Yakuza 6 has been out in Japan since December 2016 and only came out in Europe and the United States in April this year. Earlier, publisher Sega already released a demo, which turned out to be the full version by mistake. The Yakuza games fall into the action-adventure genre and contain RPG elements. In the games, players with Japanese Yakuza mobster Kazuma Kiryu enter an open world from a third-person perspective.