While I think expectations are always too high for these things (from myself included), I highly doubt this is just an Asian release date.
That will be a part of it, of course. But according to
Nico Nico's schedule, this thing is an hour long. It doesn't take an hour to announce the release date.
Then you have Toshihiro Nagoshi saying we'll have an update on Yakuza: Ishin, the new Yakuza game with a still unannounced platform, on the same day as the conference. And it was said before that we'd get the platform announcement prior to TGS.
Point is, it'll be more than a release date. Unless, like, they speak reallllly reallllly slowly.
Also, they're broadcasting this on
western PlayStation sites, as well. Which would lead one to believe the English translation isn't just for English-speaking Asian territories. So there's that, too.
