Hitting the early 2017 launch window, SEGA announced today that Yakuza 0 will be available on January 24, 2017 in North America and Europe, exclusively for PlayStation 4. Available both physically and digitally, it costs $59.99 USD.
Discussing the localization, Associate Localization Producer Scott Strichart said that, for the first time since Yakuza 2 on PlayStation 2, they’re putting all the chapter titles, character introductions, opponent names, and on-screen directions in English, instead of just subtitling the kanji.
Additionally, they’re leaving the original Japanese voices, meaning Yakuza 0 will be subtitled in English:

Secondly, and this is sometimes controversial, but hear me out ? we?re maintaining general-use honorifics in the English script. We?re leaving the original Japanese voices intact for the authenticity that only a Japanese voice actor could bring to a yakuza experience, so we took the opportunity to bring the subtitles you?re reading closer to what you?re actually hearing the characters say. Beyond just marrying the subtitles to the spoken word, the honorifics actually play a pretty important role in understanding the respect (or lack thereof) characters have for each other. I think you?ll really see how much more this adds to the story when you get to play it!
Set in Kamurocho, Tokyo in December 1988, Yakuza 0 tells the origin stories of Kazuma Kiryu, the rising Dragon of Dojima, and Goro Majima, before he’s known as the Mad Dog o...