The Gamblog journalist Romain Mahut is on fire...
It looks like he struggles to remain silent about Shenmue HD (See the last tweet picture, from yesterday night).
For those who have no idea who he is, Romain Mahut is a journalist working for the second most popular gaming website in France (behind Gamekult) and he is also a huge Shenmue fan.
This below is the first time he did a tweet about the Shenmue series, at the beginning of April.
The next screen-cap is taken from the comments section about the "SEGA plans to revive major IPs" news.
Romain posted a Tweet shortly after JAW CEO comments about Shenmue HD on NeoGAF.
(No N.D.A. but he has been asked to keep some things for himself.
JAW CEO "kind of confirms" on Twitter what he wrote on the NeoGAF forum.
New Tweet from Romain, yesterday night. This is not an answer, that's a spontaneous tweet.
Although Shenmue HD isn't mentioned, it's seems very very likely that this is about our beloved franchise.
"It's coming out. The real mystery is the announcement date."
It's interesting to note the change of "tone" since the JAW CEO comments.
I assume he no longer feels obliged to keep some things to himself.
To me, this is the closest thing to an actual confirmation of Shenmue HD existence.
Why does Romain write so much about Shenmue?
He's a Shenmue fan, but also a journalist and as journalist he probably doesn't want to miss the "scoop" if the opportunity arises. (By the way, he and Julo, another journalist AND Shenmue fan from Gameblog will attend E3. It's definitely worth checking their Twitter accounts during E3...)
That said, Shenmue HD could exists as a "project", it can be at the beginning of the development or simply far away from completion. It's SEGA, no doubt they can be late. Officially, we don't even know if the project has been greenlighted.
Although the chances for an announcement during E3 are real, they mathematically are still not above 50%...
It may come later, during the PSX or the TGS. It all depends on how far they are with the development and how early before release, SEGA wants to make an announcement.
As Shenmue fans, as a Community, I think that all we can do is keep the pressure on SEGA to release Shenmue HD before Shenmue 3 comes out. About that, TeamYu explained way better than me, where we stand right now.
https://www.facebook.com/TeamYu/posts/1608837042461662/
Let's make the June 3rd #SaveShenmueHD Tweetathon the most vocal of all time!