What do those mean Japanese yakuza do after a hard day in the streets of Tokyo? They play Yakuza 6 on the PS4 of course! But they will still have to wait a little longer as the game isn’t expected to be released in Japan until December 2016. The next Yakuza 6 will feature hostess bars, and will promote interaction with them by allowing players to chat with them live.

Giving players the ability to talk with a real person from inside a video game is a very innovative and exciting idea. The developers could have opted to use virtual girls controlled by the game, but instead they decided to be innovative and include real women. I don’t know if the girls will be required to respect a ton of rules, but if they have carte blanche it could very quickly become an 18+ kind of game. I’m leaning more for a second option in which certain limits would be imposed. But again, nothing is certain, as the Japanese are rarely predictable.

Details about this functionality aren’t known at this time, but it raises questions. Will the game’s publisher be selecting these webcam girls? Will the girls be able to get completely nude and perform sexual services? Will this functionality be reserved for the Japanese market or accessible to the entire world? It is difficult to answer at this time.