SONY’s Adam Boyes announces progress on PlayStation requested titles: Shenmue and Yakuza
Giovanni Corsi…will you marry me?
No seriously, will you marry me? This is potentially some of the best Shenmue and Yakuza news that we have received in a while and it is all thanks to PlayStation’s new Third Party Production team.
If you don’t know what I am going on about, I shall provide you with a refresher. A little while ago Sony set out to find out what titles people wanted to be brought over to PS4, PS3 or PS Vita. To do this, Sony set out a challenge for fans: tweet to Signore Corsi the title of the game you wanted to see brought over to PlayStation and he would compile it into a list while paying attention to the most popular choices. Shenmue and Yakuza got thousands of requests, and now Adam Boyes has explained in an interview with Kotaku (link below) that they are now focussing on these titles.
“There was a massive amount of requests for all kinds of huge IPs that are big in Japan. And those are the ones we’re going after, based on the popularity of the requests… We get a ton of requests for Yakuza, a ton of requests for Shenmue. We see the lists. Like everything that people have tweeted Gio, literally we have a person that compiles those lists and prioritizes based on how many requests we’ve gotten. And I think to date there’s well over 10,000 mentions across like forum threads and stuff like that. So those are the ones we’re focused on.”
This is shockingly good news for us SEGA fans, but the good stuff doesn’t end there. Boyes goes on to mention when fans will start to hear some announcements.
“I would say within the next six months we’ll have at least one if not a few announcements to make.”
[Via Kotaku]
Fans can encourage Sony and Sega to strike this deal by targeting both companies in the upcoming Shenmue Tweetathon: http://TeamYu.net/Dec3rd
Please, Sony, bring Shenmue I-II HD and/or Shenmue 3 to fans! Thank you,
for listening to every fan! This is unprecedented! Bring Yu Suzuki and
Mark Cerny together, and release the majestic conclusion to one of the
most requested games ever! Shenmue has a cult following and fans will do
anything to get it. It will ensure a great boost of sales for Sony’s
consoles, be it (oh yeah) PlayStation 4! We have been waiting for 13
years! Don’t break our heart once again. We need to depend on you! 😀
“TeamYu: Fans can encourage Sony and Sega to strike this deal by targeting both companies in the upcoming Shenmue Tweetathon: http://TeamYu.net/Dec3rd“
I would absolutely love for Yakuza 5 to be localized. I’d also like to see a HD collection of Shenmue 1 and 2 since I missed out on those games and I’ve heard they’re similar so I have quite a big interest for it.