During a Sega-Nama livestream earlier today, Chief Creative Officer Toshihiro Nagoshi discussed his plans for a new Yakuza IP. He revealed a new IP will be announced in September, which had been in development for around 3 years.

The new Yakuza IP, in Nagoshi’s words, will be a completely different experience and “totally overturned”.

Nagoshi mentioned SEGA’s Tokyo Game Show 2018 and that we’ll have more details about the upcoming IP during the event, which runs from September 19 – 23.

Here’s the Japanese livestream –

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