A user of 2chan.net has posted an image from the newest Famitsu which shows the announcement by SEGA of Yakuza 3, as seen above.

"But," you say, "they already made Yakuza 3!" And that is the point I whack you on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper and tell you that you're bad, just like that time you said Mega Man & Bass was Mega Man 9 and Mega Man X was Mega Man 10.

The previous game, Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!, was in fact the third game of the franchise, but not the official "3." Sort of like how Hard Corps, Shattered Soldier, and Neo followed Contra 3, and yet we got Contra 4 just last year.

Instead, Kenzan was but a spinoff, while this newly announced title, on which work began when Kenzan finished, will pick up where 2 left off.