Great news! The demo for Yakuza 4 is coming soon! Yakuza 4 was released back in March in Japan, but the USA version demo will be available on February 15th in North America and 16th in Europe. However it is only for Playstation Plus Subscribers.
Don't worry though if you aren't a subscriber because the demo will be available on Feb 22nd and 23rd in NA and Europe as well. The game is set to release March 15th in America and is an immediate sequel to Yakuza 3. While SEGA sort of screwed the pooch with Yakuza 3 having removed content it seems they are set to remedy that blunder this time with Yakuza 4.
For anyone not familiar with the Yakuza series just think of it as Grand Theft Auto set in Japan, but with a lot of focus on street brawling, dating, and some RPG elements. It's a recipe for awesome and you can get your taste soon.
Today, Sega announced its financial results for the full fiscal year that started in April 2024 and ended in March 2025.
I like what's on their legacy IP list, but there are still many more franchises they could revive. Shining Force and Chakan come to mind.
"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
Certain video games firsts have become common knowledge over the years, while some incredible feats have fallen into the dustbin of time - TechStomper has dug up five of those forgotten firsts.
Can't wait for tomorrow. Downloading this, Stacking, the KZ3 demo, and the new Qore.
I'm loving PS+ right now.
he got disagrees because the demos not out till the 15th but that was just a mistake id say