Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth Had Highest Physical Pre-Orders In Franchise History - Noisy Pixel
The Japanese outlet 4Gamer recently interviewed Masayoshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, and Ryōsuke Horii from RGG Studio about the recently released Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Had Highest Physical Pre-Orders in Franchise History
The Japanese outlet 4Gamer recently interviewed Masayoshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, and Ryōsuke Horii from RGG Studio about the recently released Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Several facets are discussed, notably regarding the process of the game’s development being interfered with by the pandemic and how the physical pre-orders for Infinite Wealth were the highest in the series.
Yokoyama: Especially in Japan, we are doing well. Nowadays, there are both physical and digital versions, so it is difficult to compare the numbers with past titles, but in terms of the number of pre-orders for the physical copy, it is the highest in the series’ history. I can say this now: at the time of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, the number of pre-orders for the physical version was incredibly small.
4Gamer: You said that the percentage of digital versions* was the highest ever once before, right?
Yokoyama: Yes. The main character [no longer being Kiryu] and the change in the system to an RPG had a big impact on us. I still feel anxious about the time from 2019 to the beginning of 2020. But when we opened the door, we found that the market stock had dwindled to almost zero by the morning of the release date, and our salespeople who had received additional orders were fighting over the stock. For our part, we were like, “You’re seeing that, right? (laugh)”
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