Esppiral wrote: Direct port of the games (just upscaled) would harm the franchise more than doing nothing
Shenmue deserves the Yakuza Kiwami treatment.
It won't get it, though. At least not in this shitty Universe. That's more change than SEGA is willing to drop. Yakuza probably only got it through virtue of it being a pet series, and Nagoshi having serious pull with head management. Either way, you'd ideally want Yu to work on something like that, but that's not going to happen while he has his hands full with III.
But at the same time, from what we've heard out of SEGA Europe does seem to indicate they're willing to go the extra mile on
something. Visuals? Maybe. Controls and the lack of a wait function in the original? More likely. Dual audio? I fuckin' hope so. It'll never get a full renovation, though.
And that's fine. People have gotten into the series recently from playing the games as they originally existed on Dreamcast/Xbox. Can only really improve that metric if they're cleaned up around the edges and released on PC/modern platforms. We've just got to do our part in positively promoting the series.