Great possibility of a shenmue 3?

[flex wood]

I just want to see the ending of the series. I don't care if it's by movie, book, game, whatever. I'm tired of cliffhangers.

I agree with this, but I am also tired of trilogies. Seeing as trilogies don't end anymore.

[Retrogamer0001]

Didn't Sega just post MASSIVE losses this past 6 months or so? I'm pretty sure they stated they were going to be sticking with the tried and true franchises that they were actually making money from (Alien vs Predator, Sonic, a few others). Don't hold your breath for your a risky move like resurrecting a forgotten franchise like Shenmue that may or may not sell even moderately well.

[BurningDoom]

Kickstarter. Yu Suzuki should really look into it. Granted, it can't actually be "Shenmue 3", but he can do what 1000s of other rip-off games have done before: Just change some names and places, but make the intended game otherwise.

[Dakinggamer87]

I just want to see the ending of the series. I don't care if it's by movie, book, game, whatever. I'm tired of cliffhangers.

I totally agree!!

[sheath]

New Sega just needs to stop worrying so much about risks and do it.

Old Sega used to do that, that's how we got the SCD and 32X.

But seriously though, as nice as Shenmue 3 would be I can't help but feel it would be a disappointment. It wouldn't be the same. It's hard to pick up a series that's been dead for years and years and revive it at the same level of quality as before. Max Payne 3 is an exception, not the rule.

Old Sega used to let Yu Suzuki design a game and then the company would design the hardware for him. That's how Sega came up with so many great games. Nintendo's approach of forcing developers to make all of their games for one platform has only ever produced franchises that lose creativity as they go along.

The Sega CD and 32X are perfect examples of risks the old Sega would have taken. The fact that they failed to penetrate the mass market for an extended period does nothing to negate the innovation these add-ons represent. That same drive to make something new is why Sega funded Shenmue and Sonic Adventure's development through the Saturn days and into the Dreamcast.

Sega, the real Sega, wasn't worried about whoring its franchises, it was focused on making new games, especially new games that required new hardware. Through their efforts we now know historically that consumers don't like new things, they like familiar things. Also, we now know that no company can succeed in the console or handheld markets without a monopoly in another market.

[dreamcast4ever83]

Didn't Sega just post MASSIVE losses this past 6 months or so? I'm pretty sure they stated they were going to be sticking with the tried and true franchises that they were actually making money from (Alien vs Predator, Sonic, a few others). Don't hold your breath for your a risky move like resurrecting a forgotten franchise like Shenmue that may or may not sell even moderately well.

No they did not. All you saw was one of the western post but sega over all actually made a ton of money and is perfectly fine. Just look it up.

[Etro]

Didn't Sega just post MASSIVE losses this past 6 months or so? I'm pretty sure they stated they were going to be sticking with the tried and true franchises that they were actually making money from (Alien vs Predator, Sonic, a few others). Don't hold your breath for your a risky move like resurrecting a forgotten franchise like Shenmue that may or may not sell even moderately well.

Wait... What?
You're aware that SEGA owns Vocaloid right? xD
Licensing or not, it's still money to be made. Vocaloid is HUGE.

If they can afford dancing concert holograms, and a FTP MMORPG, they can afford Shenmue 3.

[xan_racketBOY_fan]

Didn't Sega just post MASSIVE losses this past 6 months or so? I'm pretty sure they stated they were going to be sticking with the tried and true franchises that they were actually making money from (Alien vs Predator, Sonic, a few others). Don't hold your breath for your a risky move like resurrecting a forgotten franchise like Shenmue that may or may not sell even moderately well.

No they did not. All you saw was one of the western post but sega over all actually made a ton of money and is perfectly fine. Just look it up.

Source, please?

[marurun]

The biggest reason we won't see a Shenmue 3 has to do with money. Shenmue and Shenmue 2 simply didn't sell well enough. Sega kinda took a bath on Shenmue 2. Sega has indeed taken some risks lately, but trying to make a good Shenmue 3 would take tons of cash and would likely not make those tons of cash back for Sega. Sega, as a for-profit corporation, needs to make good fiscal decisions. I would love to see Yu Suzuki and Sega working together again and I'd love to see Shenmue completed, but a fiscally responsible Sega simply can't make the decision to do that. That would be like hitting their stakeholders in the nuts with the big sack of cash they toss into the abyss that would be Shenmue 3.

[dreamcast4ever83]

Didn't Sega just post MASSIVE losses this past 6 months or so? I'm pretty sure they stated they were going to be sticking with the tried and true franchises that they were actually making money from (Alien vs Predator, Sonic, a few others). Don't hold your breath for your a risky move like resurrecting a forgotten franchise like Shenmue that may or may not sell even moderately well.

No they did not. All you saw was one of the western post but sega over all actually made a ton of money and is perfectly fine. Just look it up.

Source, please?

Im trying to find all the sources but here is a few things. First sega tweeted that this was adn is totally false also they said that dispite looses that were posted they had a ton of gains in other regions and area which overall they were up in the millions not down.

I'll try to find the links

Sega quote "Interweb rumours of SEGA Europe closing are false. Rumours of Dirk Kuyt signing for Fenerbache? Much more likely."

"Interweb rumours about Sega losses are false. While we had losses in certain markets Sega as a whole overall had actually big profits and are looking forward to growing bigger.
We also have no intentions of closing are western offices."

Links below with direct quotes.


http://segabits.com/blog/2012/02/04/seg ... -earnings/

tp://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=178447

http://segabits.com/blog/2012/06/02/rum ... own-at-e3/