Yakuza 0 Sells an Estimated 108K Units First Week in the West at Retail

The open-world action adventures video game from Sega - Yakuza 0 - sold 107,841 units first week at retail on the PlayStation 4 in the West, according to estimates. First week sales can be viewed on the VGChartz USA Weekly Chart and VGChartz Europe Weekly Chart for the week ending January 28.

Breaking down the sales by region, the game sold best in the US with 53,357 units sold (49%), compared to 31,158 units sold in Europe (29%). Looking more closely at Europe, the game sold an estimated 5,790 units in the UK, 5,632 units in Germany, and 4,495 units in France. The game has also sold 444,760 units in Japan since its release nearly two years ago on the PS4 and PS3.

[Nyxus]

Anyone know how this compares to earlier games in the series?

[_-EDMIX-_]

In regards to sales? Half a million units is around what this Series has been known to sell

[game4funz]

Which is good in my books. Cuz that means its been profitable...but it also means not a lot of the 55 million supposed player base support it.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@game- how much of a 55 million unit install base is supposed to support a game like this? The PlayStation 2 had over 100 million users and still responded similarly to the first two games.

It's not saying they're bad games and it's not saying the installed base doesn't care about them it's simply saying that the 55 million is a very diverse install base of gamers you can't really find even a single game on any install base where 100% of the players all purchased it.

Gaming is diverse like that you could never expect 100% of an installed base to ever purchased anything.

Some people like RPGs some people like racing games some people like action games some people like fighting games it's always going to be that way you're not unanimously going to find an install base that all 100% purchase is a single title regardless of how great the game actually is that's like expecting a movie to get millions of views unanimously.

I mean consider that a hundred million people on the Wii in Skyward Sword only sold about 3 million units.

I mean unless you talk to to all 100 million of that install base how would you really know how much really wanted such a game?

That's actually just like this game how do you know the 55 million that on the platform all 100% unanimously even want this game? Can we really say that about any game?

I mean the point you bring up is a moot point, what install base 100% support any game?

[Gazondaily]

It's a niche game

[zombiewombie]

Awesome. I look forward to playing through 6 next year. I want to experience that baby tossing scene.

[JCW2005]

what a flop. lmao

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Around .2% attach rate of PS4 install base LOL, "Xbox don't support Japanese game like us PS gamers do therefore dont waste your money developing for Xbox"

[ThatGuyDart]

A) Are you implying that this game would have done better on Xbox? I highly doubt it

B) This type of thing happens when there is almost no marketing for a game's release.

[game4funz]

@ThatGuy

No...he is only implying that some people here assume too much.
And he's right. So much for ps base buys variety and japanese games but thats a really low number.

But yes. More advertising from sony would go a long way.

[moegooner88]

Except Sega knows what's best for its franchise sales, and how to profit from its western localisation. If game was going to sell on Xb1, they would have considered a port, but they didn't. Didn't waste their money developing for Xbox indeed.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@omg- but how much are the Xbox install base was going to purchase this question mark at the end of the day more people still actually purchase this game who only PlayStation 4 and we're ever going to purchase this on the Xbox One Final Fantasy Akito HD only sold something like a thousand units on the Xbox One in Japan where it's sold over a hundred thousand units on the PlayStation 4.

You could count percentages all day but at the end of the day the software companies actually don't care about attachment rates they care about unit sales.

Also regardless of the marketing I did not see this game moving like a million units in the United States that is just a very unlikely as this game is very Niche and only for a select audience regardless of platform

This is a very very established series if it was ever going to move monster you units it's actually would have done so already

[_-EDMIX-_]

You guys have to also consider Sega takes great consideration to Bringing these games to the West.

When they brought over Yakuza 5 they made sure it was digital only they're looking to not waste any money simply because this series in the United States is not moving extreme units in comparison to Japan.

So if Sega is worried about simply the fees regarding translation why would they spend even more money to bring it to a platform that doesn't even sell these type of games?

So you guys are correct the sales are pretty small so why would they then go to a platform in which the sales would be even worse? What you guys understand you're actually making an argument for it to never come to the Xbox in the first place?

I'm not sure they would be able to recoup their money back from the transfer job

[trouble_bubble]

Internet says it's at half a million WW. Which is Sega's average over 10 years.

Not every game is made for ''murica, same way not every 'murican game makes it over there. Just ask MS

[YEP414]

People can say all they won't about PS4,killing Xbox but they only saling 0.8% of their games of 65million which is bad .. you kind wonder why Xbox one Doing the game pass.. Xbox one game per system rate better... PS4 people not buying games!!!! This game a flop

[Sunny_D]

What are you 10? The game came out 2 years ago in Japan. Why do you think Sega took so long to release if? They know these games are not the type to sell in the west.

[trouble_bubble]

This game already made back its money and has had two more games come out since. You wouldn't grasp that concept though, since yours are always getting cancelled.

[S2Killinit]

its a great game. and this is just in the "West". West is not the world. FYI.

[KingKelloggTheWH]

Deserves more.

[Gamist2dot0]

I think they would've sold more if it wasn't for the limited physical copies.

[Dark_Overlord]

Agreed, quite a few places were out of stock, I had to go to a smaller retailer for my copy. Think Sega dropped the ball on how many copies they made available.

[CrimsonWing69]

Dang it this is why we can't have nice things!

[Tankbusta40]

Damn that's it? Seriously Yakuza 0 was the best game I've played in awhile. Ive liked it more than Nioh and now Horizon, which are both good games.

[DualWielding]

This is sad that an amazing game like this will sell less than overhyped shit like Horizon or Zelda

[TheColbertinator]

Yakuza barely sells in the west. Always will be like that.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Probably I believe if Sega sold out of their shipment it actually means that they very much understood that it was not going to be a huge selling game so for them to ship around that much shows it was a Justified investment.

They probably made their money back on the localization cost

[gangsta_red]

Barely sells in the west?

Wasnt this the first one released to the west?

[TheColbertinator]

Yakuza 1,2,3,4,dead souls and 5 all released in the west. Isshin,kenzan and black panther have not.

Sega doesn't print many copies on account of the low sales.

[ONESHOTV2]

that's a little low but i think it would have done better if it was released on steam as well i dont know why devs lock them self's to one platform if you aren't making that much money from your games.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Who knows Sega has been more open to putting their games on PC hopefully if they do they'll get a good reception in the series can continue.

They did fine putting valkyria Chronicles on PC.

Who knows.

I think it's simply because they're not sure how much of such an audience exists on the PC so there's sort of a right to be cautious.

When you have a game series that is known for selling under half a million they just don't want to waste money bring it to a platform that they may not be able to recoup it back from.

At least try to look at it from their perspective.

Mind you I don't disagree with you that I should put this game on PC to give it a chance to see if an install base exists for it, but I'm also not going to criticize their decision to keep it on a singular platform especially if it's costing them a lot of money to localize.

I don't know how their finances are but in my personal opinion Sega over the last 10 years or so had actually been doing a very good job maintaining their portfolio of games and finances.

I would assume they know what's good for their company more than anyone else they probably have a very good reason on why they haven't brought it over.

[kythlyn]

This is a fantastic game. Hope people catch on.

[Petebloodyonion]

When no media make Preview of the game and they only make a small review of it. Well, there's a good chance your game won't sell over a million unit

[PhoenixUp]

This franchise has sold 9.5 million since its inception in 2005. People acting like they're shocked at these numbers are a bunch of frauds, otherwise they'd know that although this series is very well regarded it's still very much niche.