The Yakuza series has pretty much always been associated with PlayStation platforms. After its debut on PS2, it then moved to PSP and PS3, and finally to PS4. An HD version of the first two games briefly landed on the Wii U, but it was an unmitigated disaster.
Apparently, though, things could have been different if only Microsoft or Nintendo had actually wanted the original game, as Executive Toshihiro Nagoshi told Edge magazine in an interview.
"I've never said this before, but while we released this game with Sony, I'd done presentations about it to Microsoft and Nintendo. Back then they said "No we don't want it." Now they say, "We want it!" (laughs) They didn't understand the reason why I created it."