shikamaru317 said:
Yes the sales of the first 2 weren't that high, but all of the talk about the game from fans on the internet has gotten people who never played the originals interested. I don't see how Shenmue 3 couldn't sell at least twice the copies that Shenmue 1 sold. And the game doesn't need a huge budget like the first two had, I'm pretty certain that Yu Suzuki has said that he could make Shenmue 3 with a much lower budget. |
That is exactly what I mean by the demand for that game is blown completely out of proportion thanks to the internet, I really don't see why over 2 million people would buy the last part of a trilogy of which only a couple 100k played the 2nd part and that over ten years ago, at the very least if they want to make Shenmue 3 then they have to make the first 2 games available to the consoles they plan to release the third game on.
Also I never played Shenmue, but as far as I know the thing that made it so expensive was that they wanted to create a real living world in which you could interact with everything, if they want to stay true to that with the third part then that should take a considerable amount of time and resources once again.
