wonderhow_shenhua wrote:long time no see, everyone.
greetings from hong kong. (re-register as i lost my account p/w)
Hey! are you Chan? Welcome back to Dojo.
Visual Memory wrote:What we need to know now is:
1. Has Yu Suzuki personally given up the game Shenmue (3) or not?
We gotta make him talk!!!
2. Who owns the rights to Shenmue?
Is it Sega Corporation whith its new President CEO and COO Hajime Satomi, the leader of Sammy? Is it AM Plus (Yu's new studio), or is it just Suzuki himself, or is it AM Software, which appears to be what's left of AM 2?
http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/ ... 07_ir1.pdf 3.Would it be possible for another developer to buy the rights, or at least a license AND cooperate with Yu-San to make Shenmue 3?
4.Is it possible for Yu-San to start his own independent business (which is of course totally and completely independent from SegaSammy Holdings and any of its subsidiaries!
)
b. Could his own company get the rights to Shenmue?
5. If there was absolutely no possibility to ever finish Shenmue, what would Yu Suzuki and Sega do? Could they make it into a movie or make a novel out of the script?
They should at least publish the story in some way!
Here are what I know!
1-He can't talk until SEGA says "Ok, YS you can talk",
remember he is still at SEGA-SAMMY.
2-Shenmue(not Online) is still SEGA-AM2's project(if Adam is right)
but I think that they can't do anything before SEGA-SAMMY's OK.
AM2 even begged SEGA! for VF5 X360.
3-Since Xbox has Shenmue 2, Microsoft should be able to do something.
they have the money and need to do better in Japanese market.
(I wish Peter Moore could remain at MS, he was a small hope for me)
4a-Why not? but I guess that he might be able to have an independent
studio like Yuji Naka's studio nothing more,
shame, Yuji hasn't announced a game yet!
& SEGA is still the main publisher for his studio.
I will be more happy if Suzuki san can start a new studio like
Hironobu Sakaguchi's successful studio "Mistwalker"
in a short time they've developed some titles
like Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey & etc.
Now they're working more games for DS, X360 & ...
like ASH, Cry On, Blue Dragon 2 & more.
As we know "Mistwalker" is a Japanese video game development studio started
by Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of the Final Fantasy series) in 2004
with the financial backing of
Microsoft but they're
free to create games for which publisher/platform they like.
they are also working with some new independent Japanese studios.
some of these studios have drawn personnel and talent from
several of Sega's development teams, particularly those which worked on
Panzer Dragoon , Sonic the Hedgehog (created by Ōshima) and even Shenmue!
But here is one thing important! "we don't still know everything!"
maybe Suzuki san should remain at SEGA to keep Shenmue alive!
, maybe if he leaves SEGA-SAMMY, they kill his franchise "Shenmue"!!!
this might really harm!!!
5-Shenmue is not Shenmue without a real game, that's what I only want.
(releasing a movie or a novel or ... is the last way
)
Regards-Alimn