{"id":850282,"date":"2025-12-14T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/yakuza-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-it"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:17:12","slug":"everybody-loves-yakuza-now-but-its-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/everybody-loves-yakuza-now-but-its-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody loves Yakuza now, but its creator says Sega &#8220;flat out rejected&#8221; initial pitches for the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/everybody-loves-yakuza-now-but-its-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-the-series.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/yakuza-kiwami\">Yakuza<\/a>\/ Like a Dragon is everyone&#8217;s favourite oddball action game\/ RPG\/ life-sim these days, but Sega apparently completely rejected the first time pitches for the first game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt took a while, but I think at this point it&#8217;s pretty safe to say that the Yakuza series, or the Like a Dragon series as it&#8217;s now been rebranded to, is one of the most beloved game series in the industry. That&#8217;s definitely in part thanks to some strong localisations with prequels like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/yakuza-0\">Yakuza 0<\/a>, remakes like Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2, and the shift to an RPG format with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/yakuza-like-a-dragon\">Yakuza: Like a Dragon<\/a>. While it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/persona-3-reload-atlus-best-steam-launch-granblue-fantasy-relink-better\">didn&#8217;t hit the highs<\/a> of titles like Granblue Fantasy: Relink, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/like-a-dragon-infinite-wealth\">Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth<\/a> still did very well for itself on Steam at its launch, so the series is clearly here to stay. However, in an interview with Weekly Ochiai (as translated by <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/like-a-dragon-creator-talks-about-sega-flat-out-rejecting-the-first-yakuza-game-thinking-it-wouldnt-sell\/\">Automaton<\/a>), former Sega chief creative officer and Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi shared that Sega rejected his pitches for the series to start.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNagoshi explained that when he first started thinking about pitching the Yakuza series in the early 2000s, Sega was finding it difficult to release globally successful games. &#8220;This led to a mindset of making games that would appeal to the masses, games that could sell anywhere and to anyone,&#8221; Nagoshi said. &#8220;Many producers, including myself, thought this way.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/yakuza-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-it\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/yakuza-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-it\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakuza\/ Like a Dragon is everyone&#8217;s favourite oddball action game\/ RPG\/ life-sim these days, but Sega apparently completely rejected the first time pitches for the first game. It took a while, but I think at this point it&#8217;s pretty safe to say that the Yakuza series, or the Like a Dragon series as it&#8217;s now been rebranded to, is one of the most beloved game series in the industry. That&#8217;s definitely in part thanks to some strong localisations with prequels like Yakuza 0, remakes like Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2, and the shift to an RPG format with Yakuza: Like a Dragon. While it didn&#8217;t hit the highs of titles like Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth still did very well for itself&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/everybody-loves-yakuza-now-but-its-creator-says-sega-flat-out-rejected-initial-pitches-for-the-series\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,603,222,6881,8821,8711,59,736,44,34,27,137,54,169,3987,39,8058],"class_list":["post-850282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-deep-silver","tag-fighting","tag-hackslash","tag-like-a-dragon-infinite-wealth","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-pc","tag-ps2","tag-ps4","tag-rpg","tag-sega","tag-simulation","tag-single-player","tag-sports","tag-third-person","tag-yakuza","tag-yakuza-kiwami"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Everybody loves Yakuza now, but its creator says Sega &quot;flat out rejected&quot; 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