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Shenmue Remakes Still Haven’t Been Greenlit, But They Have SEGA’s “Full Attention”

The waiting game continues.
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Published: Sep 2, 2016 06:31 am

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Speaking to MCV, head of SEGA Europe, Jurgen Post, stated that the company was very much interested in remaking Shenmue 1 and 2, which were originally released back in 2000 and 2001. However, a bit of bad news: the remakes for these classic titles have not yet been greenlit.

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‘”We are looking into it. It is an old IP, it is a beloved IP – and not just by consumers, but also within Sega, we have people saying that if we could do Shenmue 1 and 2 all over again, we’d definitely go for it.

“The issue is that it is a big game. It is a project from many years ago. If we are to do it, we’d want to do a fantastic conversion to the current platforms, and there are a lot of licences in the game, which were cleared many years ago, so we will need to renegotiate those contracts. We are looking into it. We haven’t given it a green light, but it has our full attention.”’

In the meantime, Shenmue III was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and is set to be released in late 2017.

Thanks, MCV.

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Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.
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