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Yakuza has truly been a rising star for SEGA since the first game launched back in 2005 for the PlayStation 2, and doing a crossover with Tekken seems like a smart marketing move for both parties, especially since both franchises are so heavily associated with the Sony PlayStation. If Kiryu were added, you could also give him a stage from the back streets of Kamurocho, the main area from the Yakuza games, which is modeled after the real-life Kabukicho in Tokyo, Japan. There aren't really any straight up gangsters fighting in Tekken, much less a yakuza.

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Not only would Kiryu be an easy fit to put in to Tekken since he's a very physical and grounded fighter, but also, there's really nobody else in the Tekken series who is like Kiryu. The requests for the character went so far that they even garnered the attention of the Yakuza series producer Daisuke Sato, who was quoted as saying 'What it comes down to the whole Tekken thing, if Harada-san says he wants to use Kiryu, well then there it is', effectively giving his blessing to Harada to use the Yakuza protagonist if he wants to (though I'd imagine a more official contract would be needed, too). There were an intense amount of requests for him to join the Tekken fray, and even if you might not have thought of him as a Tekken candidate on your own, once it's mentioned to you, it really starts to stick in your mind how obviously great it would be. One of the most talked about characters before Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV was revealed to be the newest Tekken 7 DLC fighter was none other than this man, Kazuma Kiryu from SEGA's highly successful Yakuza series, also known as Ryu ga Gotoku (Like a Dragon) in Japan. With all this in mind, let's take a look at what content we might be getting from Tekken 7 in the relatively near future. Assuming this is the case not only for Injustice, it would mean that it's highly likely that any new DLC we get would at least partly contain characters from outside the Tekken universe.

We've been told a few times from developers that crossover characters tend to sell the best - even in Injustice: Gods Among Us, Ed Boon confirmed that Mortal Kombat's Scorpion in fact sold the most out of the post-launch content.

We can assume that a healthy amount of players who bought the game also bought the post-launch DLC characters Geese Howard and Noctis Lucis Caelum, the latter in particular due to it being a crossover with the wildly popular Final Fantasy series' latest entry, Final Fantasy XV. The plans of additional DLC are likely from a business standpoint as well, considering the game surpassed its sales goal of 2 million in one year back in December, where it reportedly hit 2.5 million copies sold. Last week, there was another development where it seems to have been accidentally spilled by a Japanese site that a Season 2 of the game would indeed be arriving.

This was already hinted at by Michael Murray at Combo Breaker the weekend before, where he said that the Tekken team were still hiding things that would be announced later on.

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