Yakuza video games was once PlayStation exclusives, however during the last couple of years, the collection has landed on different platforms. Just about each sport within the mainline collection might be discovered on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, however do not anticipate to see Kiryu Kazuma busting heads on the Nintendo Switch.

Though Nintendo’s hybrid online game console may technically run the Yakuza video games on its hardware–or even stream them in a fashion much like current Resident Evil video games–executive producer and Ryu Ga Gotoku studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama is hesitant, for now, to port the grownup collection to that system.

“Do we need to put a title like this the place we’re going round and choosing a combat with the world and doing all this Yakuza stuff, on a Switch,” Yokoyama defined. According to the producer, the family-friendly picture of the Switch in its dwelling floor of Japan clashes with the “underground feeling” that Yakuza video games mission.

“We nonetheless sort of consider ourselves as individuals of the night time world, proper? We do not need to be like strolling across the day with all people else,” Yokoyama mentioned. “Like for us, it is sort of exhibiting this sort of underground feeling. I feel the underground sort of feeling is what we need to do.”

Yakuza followers may have loads of underground motion to look ahead to quickly. Next yr will see a remake of Like a Dragon: Ishin and the Yakuza spin-off Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name arrive on PC and console, whereas Like a Dragon 8 is scheduled to launch in 2024. For the following mainline entry within the collection, RGG Studio is pairing up each Ichiban Kasuga and Kiryu Kazuma for a brand new journey in what it calls “the biggest [Yakuza] sport so far” within the long-running collection.