The more I think about it, the less I think it will be released.
It needs to be a remake, or nothing, not only because that's what I want, but realeasing an HD version or direct port would cause them more trouble than anything, I am saying this after hacking both Shenmue and Shenmue 2 to display in widescreen.
Many of you may have noticed already, but during many cutscenes, characters that weren't supossed to be seen while playing in 4:3 aspect ratio, are standing still on the corner of the screen while in 16:9, and then they start moving when they are supposed to be visible.
Examples, when Ryo meets Megumi for the first time, you can see in 16:9 how he is frozen until he is supposed to be seen, then he starts moving.
In Shenmue 2 the guy that takes you a photo when you arrive to Hong Kong will teletransport himself and freeze to the right corner of the screen
When you meet the Poison Brothers for the first time, Joys motorcycle is parked on the left of the screen, magically the next frame she is riding it.
Land Di is hidden behind a wall when eveyone is in Ren's hideout and Yuanda Zhu shows you the "map"
When ryo reads the letter for the first time, it is flying towards his hand, the black bars were supposed to hide this. etc etc.
This is aceptable because we are hacking the game to do things it wasn't suposed to be doing, and those things werent suposed to be seen, but releasing an HD port in 2017 showcasing that.... that makes me think that they will go the easy route and release them in 4:3.... that's why it needs to be a remaster and not a port, among many other things.