New Head of Xbox Phil Spencer says gamers want Microsoft to bring back Shenmue

[DrBloodmoney]

I just looked it up on Wikipedia - looks a bit like the Yakuza series?

[STRANGEgenius]

You know all those lovely Quick Time Events you hate in games. Well you can thank Shenmue for that

I like QTES most of the time, especially when im playing games on hard, its safer when im in QTE mode

[Widow_Warrior]

Yes, you are.

No, he's not.

[G3RY5F]

Only one of the best Dreamcast games. 

Ah the Dreamcast. So many fond memories of Shenmue and Grandia 2. 

Edited April 1, 2014 by G3RY5F

[FleaSixty]

Hopefully they will port it to the PS4 if they do make it so I can drive a forklift truck and move boxes again for hours on end. 

[TalynnStrike]

Ah the Dreamcast. So many fond memories of Shenmue and Grandia 2. 

Yea, wish Sega still made systems. I know i bought every one of em. Ahh the fun of the Sega Nomad, man i killed so many batteries. 

 

It may be perfectly legit for microsoft to make another Shenmue as sega did lose the rights to Shenmue but on that note, Yu Suzuki is wanting to finish the series out and was talking to some PS4 people. 

[DrBloodmoney]

I suspect that if the guys at Microsoft knew what 'gamers' want, they wouldn't be in thier current predicament. ..

[Shadowrider50]

Right away I think of a scenario to my mind of Sony and Microsoft fighting over it and tearing it to shreds.
Microsoft pretty much ensured/finalised Rare's ultimate death... so that doesn't give much faith.

Shenmue 2 sold very very bad on Xbox, but it did relatively well on Dreamcast... and furthermore Xbox is pretty much eschewed in Japan. I don't think that it would do so well on Xbox as it would on other platforms.
I'm not saying not make it multiplatform, but if it had to be an exclusive, then from my point of view, Xbox is the worst out of the big 3. On another note, I wonder how this could play into VR.