But Company Admits Great Hesitation
The website PS3Center.net is citing a report from Japanese magazine Famitsu 360′s recent developer issue as saying that Sega hasn’t totally lost hope on another Shenmue.
No quotations are cited, but the article notes that Famitsu sat down with Sega brass, and franchise did come up in conversation. According to the piece, Sega does think about a new entry from time to time, but fears of another flop keep them from pulling the trigger. Shenmue and Shenmue II did not sell to company expectations, and that is the driving force behind not going forward.
But the PS3Center article does speculate:
Sounds like Sega is hoping that one of the platform holders fund it, perhaps in return for an exclusivity deal.
But you may remember that in North America, Shenmue II was exclusive to Microsoft’s XBOX. It appears that did not help Sega or Microsoft, so there may not be interest there.
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As great as Shenmue is, all fans must remember that it is a business, in the end. Unless Microsoft jumps on board (I can’t see Sony or Nintendo doing it, though who knows), we may never see a Shenmue 3.
From SEGA’s own economy, I don’t blame them.
It’s great to hear that it is still being considered after all. This may be partly due to the amount of interest in Rio being in ASR. If it is exclusive, I think it would be best off in the hands of Microsoft or Nintendo. They attract a wider audience and Shenmue really needs to be expierienced by as many people as posible.
Maybe a release of Shenmue 1 & 2 on the Wii, XBLA or even PSN would be good to test the waters.
Their best bet would be to remake the original or update and re-release them for Live Arcade/PSN/WiiWare and create interest in the series. Shenmue is great and all but most people have no idea what the fuck it is.
..after finally announcing an April (yes, April) release for Yakuza 3 and their reluctancy of brining the Sakura Wars titles out of exclutivity in Japan, I’d don’t really see much they can/will do to support this.
Graxer: “This may be partly due to the amount of interest in Ryo being in ASR”
Prehaps this is they’re way of testing the waters, maybe followed by a re-release of Shenmue and Shenmue II. I’m not saying it’s going to happen but if they say they think about making Shenmue III from time to time then it would make sence for them to get Shenmue related releases out there to see how people respond.
One thing is for sure: Lan Di is enjoying himself right now, the only videogame villain to ever get away with it, muwahahahaha!!
Shenmue 3 PS3/XBOX360 player game what.
If they made a Shemue 2 for PS3 and Xbox 360!…..I would buy it on the release date! I don’y know much about it, haven’t even tried one of the games, but it looks so cool and awesome..and sounds really good…so I would buy it!
@Osnic: Shenmue 2 is on the 360. Buy Shenmue 2 for the Xbox, and I’m more than sure it’s compatible with your 360.
Shenmue is great! I’ve brought it on xbox and play it ony 360. I think the first two games should be re-released first. When shenmue first came out it was so expensive to make that if everyone who owned a drecast brought two coppies it still wouldn’t be profitable.!!!! Maybe this is why sega are hesitant!!!!
Shenmue sounds awesome! Would buy the 3rd it if came! But isn’t Yakuza 3 a bit like… shenmue 3? Or that’s what I’ve heard.