Port Appointed

How SEGA chooses which Japanese games to port and when.

- Phil Savage

In April, 2017, the PC Gamer team made a wishlist of Japanese games we wanted to come to PC. Over a year later, and… we’re still waiting on the many of those games. But even though I’m not yet playing Gitaroo Man through my Steam account, PC fans have recently enjoyed releases of a number of Japanese games, many of them from SEGA’s back catalog. With Bayonetta, Vanquish, and now Yakuza 0, SEGA is building a reputation as one of the most proactive porters of Japanese games to PC.

“We were so pleased to be able to announce Yakuza, just in the same way that we were so pleased to be able to announce Shenmue, in the same way that we were pleased to announce Bayonetta, Vanquish, and before that Valkyria