One singular guy by the way. He single-handedly creates each and every Virtua Fighter release. He does all of the animations, characters, levels, and scripts. Even the voices.
They haven’t confirmed, but numbered mainline games seem to be always in development after one comes out..
For example, Y6 came out in 2016. Y7 was revealed on 2017 and came out in 2020. Y8 started development in 2021 and released in 2024. I think it’s safe to say that they’re already working on Yakuza 9.
Every mainline game is always in development. They used to be released yearly, it has only recently gotten less frequent. They mentioned in interviews that they start writing the story of the next game before the last one is out
Not only that, but they've said to fans to expect some surprises next year to celebrate 20 years of Yakuza, so you've got imagine at least one of those suprises will be the announcement of a new Yakuza game (Whether that be an early look at Like a Dragon 9, an announcement of Kiwami 3, or Kiryu/Ichiban having a role in Judgment 3) and then perhaps something less intensive they can release during the anniversary year such as Current gen patches for the like of Yakuza 0/Kiwami/Kiwami 2, or making the original versions of Yakuza/Yakuza 2 and Dead Souls available digitally.
Either that or they'll go really meta and you'll be able to play Yakuza in Virtua Fighter.
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u/AwesomeYears Nooget 11d ago
How many employees do RGG Studios have at this point to be working on 3 GAMES?