Shenmue 3? Will it happen?

[Mephiles550]

So how long until talk of a Kidspad port of Shemnue 3 comes along?

[stu]

So how long until talk of a Kidspad port of Shemnue 3 comes along?

LMAO!

[MrSega]

So how long until talk of a Kidspad port of Shemnue 3 comes along?

There will probably likely NEVER be a Shenmue III on KIDS PAD if you want to be serious. A Yakuza series port and a VC 1-3 wouldn't surprise me though.

[CruSega]

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@CruSega. 32X & Saturn are completely different in design and power, Mars is System 32 based hardware therefore not capable of 3D & wasn't meant to be 3D. Saturn is off-the-self chips of Model 2 hardware. Saturn uses a more complex low res archetecture design of Model 2. Both proccessors run a higher res Model 1 polygon proccessing mechanism and a Quadlateral 3D engine.

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Wasn't Sega CD supposed to be Sega's answer to arcade quality sprite based pseudo-3D gaming? I mean it could handle games from the System Y era which is what Sega should have used it for. All that Sega needed to do at the time was port the System 32 arcade hits to the SegaCD and it would have held gamers over until Saturn.

32X/Mars was capable of 500 000 flat shaded polygons per second. Sega clearly wanted it to be a cheap 3D experience which is why they released Virtua Racing and Star Wars Arcade. 32X was neither designed for 3D or 2D but sort of some crossover stop-gap until Saturn arrived. This would be the worst system Sega released to the consumer market and Kalinske, along with the rest of SOA who thought of this junk add-on deserved to be terminated.

According to then-CEO, Tom Kalinske, Sega wanted a tiered console offering like the car industry.

Genesis=Chevrolet
32Crap=Buick
Saturn=Cadillac

http://www.defunctgames.com/shows.php?i ... aidwhat-22

"Now, I can sit here and tell you today that no matter how great Saturn is, or PlayStation is, or Ultra 64 is, we will outsell them by an enormous amount with 32X -- simply because of the price."

"And the 32X titles coming out in March and April will be fantastic. Internally, we have seen things that we're working on where 32X titles are beginning to look just as good as the Saturn games."

Tom Kalinske, 1994

This man clearly lost site of what made the Genesis a success and started believing in his own company's hype.

Anyways, Mr. Sega, you can see that 32X was aimed as a low cost 3D alternative to the Saturn and not a 2D system since SegaCD already was quite capable of handling and manipulating sprites.

I don't like to agree with the Angry SegaHating Video Game Nerd on YouTube but when it comes to 32X--"what were they thinking?" Even coming up to its 17th anniversary I still don't understand the purpose of their magic mushroom shaped add-on that nobody wanted.

[pcwzrd13]

I just updated the original post with links to the most recent articles regarding Shenmue III. Please let me know if you know of any others and I will add them.

[Mephiles550]

Isn't there a downloadable Shemnue game being developed for mobile phones?

How is that going along? Is it a prequel or something?

[MrSega]

Isn't there a downloadable Shemnue game being developed for mobile phones?

How is that going along? Is it a prequel or something?

Yeah, but it's unrealated to the original.

[pcwzrd13]

Isn't there a downloadable Shemnue game being developed for mobile phones?

How is that going along? Is it a prequel or something?

It was released in Japan only and it's a side-story. Here are a couple articles on it:

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2011/03/ ... artphones/

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/02/28/yu ... artphones/

[madmax2069]

As much as i would love to see a Shenmue 3 I got to say that i dont see it really happening in this console generation. If Shenmue does come out i expect it to be totally different then what we know as Shenmue on the Dreamcast, They could very well start from scratch (a refresh of sorts).

I could be wrong about what i think, We could see a Shenmue 3 in this console generation, But I wont be holding my breath over it.

[mazonemayu]

I certainly hope not, I really don't wanna have to buy a ps3