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Yu Suzuki originally wanted to do a Shenmue 3 Kickstarter in 2012
Around a month ago, a brand new book about Yu Suzuki’s life was released in France. Fortunately, a member of the Shenmue Dojo was able to post some interesting tidbits from the biography, including new details about Shenmue III‘s developmental hell.
Shenmue 3 was almost announced for Xbox at E3 2004 and for some reason we still don’t really know the announcement got cancelled at the very last minute. Yu initially wanted to do a Shenmue 3 Kickstarter in 2012, but Sega asked too much for the license.
In addition to the Shenmue news, he also talks about Yu Suzuki’s younger years, the announcement at E3, and more. You can read the full post by clicking here!
I wouldn’t call it development help as the game was never really in development.
Shenmue-Online on the other hand did spent sometime in development hell as the game went back to the drawing board after JCEntertainment left the project.
For my definition I consider even Suzuki looking for it to get made as part of the development process lol
I really REALLY want to know why Shenmue 3 didn’t happen in 2004.
It is impossible to do the game for X-Box as it was blatantly obvious all the character models and environments needed to be updated.
Shenmue 3 would need as much of a facelift as Shenmue Dreamcast received from Shenmue Saturn. So the time factor alone would move it to a launch title for 360. Given that Peter Moore regards Shenmue 2 as one of his favorite games I don’t understand why he wouldn’t push for it especially since Microsoft still needs more killer Japanese IP’s.