Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth system requirements demand twice as much space as Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Like A Dragon 8 teaser trailer - Ichiban squints into the sun while standing on a beach naked
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The Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth system requirements have arrived on Steam, and overall they're not too demanding. You'll be able to get away with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 or an AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU and 8GB of RAM—if you don't mind playing at 30 fps and 1080p on low settings with balanced FSR 1.0. The recommended settings call for a GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 5700 and 16GB of RAM, which will get you 60 fps at 1080p on high settings without FSR.

The one place where Infinite Wealth's specs make a significant leap over the previous mainline game in the series, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is in the disk space demand. Where that game asked for 40GB minimum, Infinite Wealth wants to eat up 82GB of your drive like it's a delicious Sotenbori okonomiyaki. While that's a pretty big difference, in the days of routine 100GB installs it could be worse. This year's spin-off sidestory, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, needed 98GB, though it included a demo of Infinite Wealth that presumably took a significant chunk of that. 

Or maybe it was all the hostess videos, I don't know. At least Infinite Wealth isn't listing an SSD as a definite requirement, as recent games like Starfield, Alan Wake 2, Redfall and so on have. Anyway, here are the details in full.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth minimum system requirements

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 1903 (OS Build 18362)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 3470, 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 3.1 GHz
  • Memory: 8GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon RX 460, 4 GB or Intel Arc A380, 6 GB
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 82GB available space
  • Sound Card: Windows Compatible Audio Device
  • Additional Notes: 1080p Low @ 30 fps w/ Balanced FSR 1.0, requires a CPU which supports the AVX and SSE4.2 instruction set
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 1903 (OS Build 18362)
  • Processor: Intel Core i7 4790, 3.6 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 3.2 GHz
  • Memory: 16GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, 6 GB or AMD Radeon RX 5700, 8 GB or Intel Arc A750, 8 GB
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 82GB available space
  • Sound Card: Windows Compatible Audio Device
  • Additional Notes: 1080p High @ 60 fps w/o FSR, requires a CPU which supports the AVX and SSE4.2 instruction set

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will unite Like a Dragon's young underdog protagonist Ichiban Kasuga with Kazuma Kiryu, the aging hero of the games from back when they were called the Yakuza series here in the west. It'll have turn-based combat, as Yakuza: Like a Dragon did, and will feature a minigame that goes full Animal Crossing, letting you run your own island paradise. It'll be out on January 26, 2024. 

Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.