Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Reportedly Sells Less Than 2000 Copies in Wii-U Debut Week

[Goro]

Earlier this year, as part of a 'SEGA Direct' segment broadcast in Japan, Satoru Iwata and Toshihiro Nagoshi introduced Yakuza 1 & 2 HD, a bundled re-release of the two PlayStation 2 games. A potential problem for this title was that it was already released in the region on PS3 in November 2012, with the very real possibility that most fans already owned it on Sony's system.

Whatever the issues, its clear that the title's Wii U release has flopped in its debut week. It failed to appear in this week's Japanese software top 20, and reports from Japanese website Dengeki show it missing the top 50, which means it shipped less than 2000 copies.

Back in May Toshihiro Nagoshi stated that the release was an "experiment", saying the following:

"We're not aiming to see if the game will be a smash hit. Our real intention is that we want to see how people respond."

Even against such modest expectations, this is surely a major disappointment, and perhaps reflects the perils of year-old ports being released on Nintendo's system.

 

Source - http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/08/yakuza_1_and_2_hd_reportedly_sells_less_than_2000_copies_in_debut_week

[Death]

Well it's a mature game on a kids console. What do you expect?

[Dr_Mayus]

2000 eh? So everyone who owns a Wii-U bought a copy

[Dead Weight]

only nintendo games sell on a nintendo console...

[Wdjat Prinny Doods]

Not surprising. It is on a system that isnt selling well in the 1st place and there probably isn't a huge Yakuza fan base on the Wii U

only nintendo games sell on a nintendo console...

Sad but true

[Lady Lilith]

So...basically, system with game that has had NO previous games in the series (and also is doing pretty poorly) doesn't sell near as well as system where all the games are on? What a shock!

[VetoShizuko]

rofl the whole topic is hilarious like seriously why did they release it on the wii u to begin with

[MxWhiteKnight]

rofl the whole topic is hilarious like seriously why did they release it on the wii u to begin with

 

Because Given the HD remaster and seeing as how the Wii2.... erm I mean Wii U is finally HD, maybe the buyers could also get them and play them finally in HD....

 

Because you know.... Yakuza 4 & 5 is skipping the Wii U

[MHCanada]

I'd gladly pony up for this if it were released in English.  In fact, given that the WiiU desperately needs a library to help it sell, I'm kinda surprised Nintendo hasn't tried to sweet-talk Sega into it.  The HD remakes were never released in English, remember, so they've never appeared on a current-gen console in English.  And if that, in turn, helped get an English WiiU version of Yakuza 5 happening... well, it wouldn't sell a lot of WiiU consoles in the West, but it would sell some -- and for Nintendo right now, that'd probably be enough to make it worthwhile.

 

Hey, I can dream.