GameSpot at Sega--Reader Questions Answered!

Also, here's some more research for you Sega: Shenmue 1 has an average user review score of 9.1, and the sequel for the DC has a score of 9.5. Ryo Hazuki DLC is the the highest rated AND most downloaded out of all of your Allstars racing DLC packs. Guess what's second highest rated? Ryo's Jacket for the avatars. His freaking jacket! Shenmue 1 is described as the greatest game of all time more frequently than almost any other game ever made (with the exception of Zelda OOT, FF7, and maybe one or two Bioware games). It doesn't take a genius! If you're not going to make it, find somebody who will!

"Before any game can get a green light, there are many levels of research and study that need to go into ensuring that it is the correct path to take." Umm, here, I'll help you "research" the demand for Shenmue 3. Look on any gaming forum, look at the hundreds of thousands of petition signatures, look at any top list of most wanted sequels, look at the thousands of youtube fan videos, and then talk to some of the fans who havn't stopped believing in this sequel for freaking years. Here's a guess what you'll find: the game will sell well, especially if you release it packed in with the first and second games. Any gaming company that refuses to look at such a sheer quantity of demand for a sequel needs to pull their head out of their butts and start taking a few more chances.

Totally agree with you there, steveguttenberg. Just shattered dreams!

All I care about from Sega at this point is Project Needlemouse

i so want to play the yakuza games... they look AWESOME. shame australia doesnt sell it here.. idiots

So I guess it's time to give up hope on Shenmue 3, Shinobi 7, Golden Axe 4, and Streets of Rage 4? I mean, if demand from fans isn't all that important to them...

@alimn1984: hey, you tried the SEGA RACE TV at the SEGA Republic Dubai? where is that located in the park? I completely missed it when I was there last time =/ cool seing someone from dubai around here =)

Should they incorporate them into a Shenmue 3 trilogy pack? Should they develop it for the Wii, PS3 or 360? Release it multiplatform? Keep it up there sleeves for a rainy day or future SEGA console?. Then there is the complication added by Yu Suzukis Shenmue Online project that doesnt fit in to Segas plan for shenmue. Its very complicated really. My advice to SEGA is release the first 2 games on current gen systems online stores then build up loads of hype with stories and teasers for Shenmue 3 and go multiplatform with it. PS3 does seem as a logical choice for exclusivity as yakuza is doing well, but in the west 360 is king, especially popular with ex Dreamcast owners. So on both systems and a watered down version for wii would be fine.

Can I just say that Shenmue 3 will certainly happen at some point. Its obvious. S3 wouldnt cost anywhere near as much as the first 2 games, the yakuza engine is paid for, the story and musical score is mostly complete, the fan base is pretty big and nowadays even mainstream gamers know about the legendary shenmue. Can you imagine if Shenmue 3 was announced game sites and mags would be full of the news storys about it and would get everyone hyped, even people that hadnt heared of shenmue. The old excuse of shenmue costing allot to make and not going to sell is not applicable these days. Especially when SEGA is willing to take risks on new IPs like bayonetta and release yakuza in the west even though it had poor sales in previous releases. Shenmue 3 will come, I suspect Sega are just not sure what to do with it.Should they re release S1 and S2 on Wii, PSN, Xbox live? Should they redux those first two games?

How about asking Sega why they stuffed up the PS3 Bayonetta conversion.

I am almost sure they are gonna screw up Project Needlemouse in some way or another. Remember how they screwed up the 2.5D sections in Unleashed by making them slow and on-rails?

Shen Mue, Sword of the Berserk, blue stinger, crazy taxi, dead or alive, dynamite cop, fur fighters, power stone, nightmare creatures, house of the dead, spawn, evil dead no1 and LOADSSS more from the dreamcast. Those are the games i want to remember sega giving me. Not bloody monkey ball 16

Resonance Of Fate!!! I WANT!!!

Co mon GUYS! Yo know that Yakuza became sucessful cuz we the gamers of the earth(mostly Shenmue fans) had enough support on these kind of games mainly because we had a good exprience with Shenmue, you say there is enough support for Yakuza so u brining it to the west while you say for Shenmue we should think and plan 100 years! Co mon, that's old...I am a student in one of the fields of this industry,... I KNOW YOUR BUSSINES,... the first time you released Shenmue you made the decission after thinking for years so...now...there is nothing left to think about except what I am gonna to say... So, you just made the decission, started a series full of potential which introduced so many new ideas and ...to the world of video games and NOW it's still unfinished ...instead of hiding and playing with words please finish what you have started...you lost because of the HARDWARE war and This time the only thing you should think about is ...JUST RELEASE IT ON THE BEST CONSOLE WITH THE MORE USERS, that's enough... Because as long as you can do something like Yakuza 3 4 5 6 7..., you can do the same for Shenmue and for god's sake the team behinnd VF5 and... IS one of the world's best game development teams, (I mean AM2) beside...Yu is alive yet... and AM PLUS's recent title(SEGA RACE TV---which I tried at SEGA REPUBLIC at Dubai...The newly opened park was just really a nice exprience, still new ideas can be found) SO YOU KNOW The game is cool...The hardware wasn't right because of N! reasons...This time there are cool consoles and none of them are bad, however Wii's graphics for Shenmue as a game with high-end graphics is not suitable. To me PS3 is starting to doing well. (finally) and that new Xbox ideas are good, don't risk...go multiplatform as possible... more people will know and old gamers can finally have some peace. Regrads, Alimn

So they've ditched the likes of Shenmue and Virtua Fighter for the above titles that no-one will buy? Come on SEGA, you used to dominate the entire industry and now you're define by damn Super Monkey Ball??? Even if you go bankrupt making Shenmue 3, at least you'll go out with a bang instead of a whimper.

ikkante: SEGA released Sonic Rush, a multidimensional platformer in 2004. it was a hit. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) came out in 2006.

give me shenmue or give me death!!!

I want a New Virtual Fighter Game a new Daytona USA game!

I remember playing a fishing game on my Sega video game years ago and its the best fishing game I have ever played and I wish they would bring it again on either the Wii or the PS3, as I would definately buy ity.

Sales would go through the roof on an interactive story with fights sprinkled here and there, yeah... that'll sell real well in the US market. As much as I love Shenmue and hope that they release a third to finish the story, the sad reality is that it will -never- recoup the development costs. I actually had a dream where I owned the third game and then when I woke up I was pissed off that it wasn't real.

I remember when Darren was a rep working for Electronic Arts back when I was working at the Gamesmen. He was a young energetic guy who had much get up and go. Fast forward 15 years later and now he's a CEO. WOW! Amazing what can happen in 15 years!

The Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush games were awesome.If SEGA somehow f***s up with Project Needlemouse,then I'll have lost all respect for them

@ Musharasur - I wholeheartedly agree, but we can only support them IF those other games are any good... they can't expect us to buy trash in the hope that they'll eventually get to making the game we want. That said, Sega has some great looking titles in the coming 12 months, so I hope we're headed in the right direction. Before I die, on my list of things to do is "kick Lan Di's butt"... I really hope I can bring that true. Go Sega :)

My advice to those who want to see a Shenmue 3 is to support Yakuza 3 and future (good) Sega games. Resonance of Fate comes to mind. My advice to Sega (chances are they will never read this...) is to release Shenmue on Xbox Live and PSN in order to see the actual interest for Shenmue. At the end of the day Sega is just like any other smart business out there. They are in the business of making money.

i love resonance of fate

sega are stupid for not doing shenmue 3.. sales would go through the roof

Panzer Dragoon was one of my all time fav games back in the day. I would love a next gen remake, but only if it was an exclusive title for the PS3 system........... The 360 gets tones of Multiplatform games, and Sega needs to step up their support for the now 20 million PS3 owners world wide......... IMHO if they could get it to look just as good as Sonic's latest games while at the same time bring back the Free flight, and RPG elements from the older titles in the series I would be happy to buy it again it was so interesting, and had a great universe going.

The sooner Valkyria Chronicles 2 comes out for PSP, the sooner they can start thinking about porting it to PS3. so...PLEASE, SEGA

My new PS3 and I are already waiting for project needlemouse

What we want: A more day levels like in sonic unleashed wii and no were-hog or swords or genies! Why is that so difficult!

Shenmue III and a new SONIC Aventure!! (for Wii if possible)

Resonance of Fate was not that good it gets a 3 out of 5

please SEGA return the Chaos to sonic games pleeease !!!

I want RISTAR!

Of course they´re developing a new 2dSonic, as always, Nintendo leads and the rest just follow the opened path. Nintendo has risked once again with a new "bidimensional" traditional Mario game, and then sega, aware that it will sell like hotcakes, is to launch a traditional sonic games.

my heart is pumping for the new 2d sonic, for all things holly dont screw it up sega.

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I would appreciate more Phantasy Star games, even a 2D old school PS game on the DS would be awesome. Also please do something awesome with the Shining Force series.

Omg, YES!!! I've been waiting for news about Yakuza 3 in what would seem like an eternity.

Obligatory "I want Shenmue, bawwww" comment. Obligatory "I want Yakuza NOW, baww" comment.

With all the terrible games they've been releasing lately I just can't believe that he said that about Shenmue. It's their most valuable gem, seriously. I know it's not a simple game (like they're used to lately) and it's not going to be cheap, even though it wouldn't cost as much as first and second part since it doesn't have to be super-duper high quality graphics and they already have the story made but for Christ's sake, Sega! Shenmue is your biggest gem!

yakuza 3 was 1 of the reasons 4 a ps3 !!!

I agree, BRING BACK PANZER DRAGOON!

OBLIGATORY "I WANT MORE SHENMUE" POST.

I want a new Shenmue!!!!!!!!! please sega!!!! hell! bring back Panza Dragoon!!!!!!

Something about the next Condemned game would've been nice...

I'd like to know what's happened to my console port of House of the Dead 4.

The lack of info on the new sonic must mean they're considering adding some kind of cheap gimmicky gameplay element to "surprise" us with Sega needs to revisit and update some of their old franchises, an online Daytona would print Sega money...guess they dont like money? New Panzer Dragoon would be nice too....what happened Sega you used to be cool, you've changed man :P

end of eternity aka resonance of fate's demo is already out on psn japan for those who doesn't know yet.

Sonic Sucks =)...he did not "Sucked", but now?...he just sucks. I'm hurt