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Jimbo1337 on 24 June 2015
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pbroy said:
Jimbo1337 said:

No let me try this again because you are clearly not getting it.  It would be awesome if M$ and Sega joined forces where M$ was making the hardware and Sega was providing the software just like you stated.  Oh wait, that is called the original XBOX!!  Haven't you wondered why the original XBox controller was strikingly similar to the Sega Dreamcast controller?  That's because Sega was helping Microsoft develop their hardware while providing software as well.  Have you ever heard of a game called Shenmue II?  That game was exclusive to XBox and Sega Dreamcast.  Oh wait!  That is relevant information to what we are discussing in this thread (Shenmue 3)!!

Yet here you are stating this: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7389129

Out of the three major conferences (Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft), you would almost guarantee that Shenmue 3 would come out exclusively on Xbox due to the great partnership with Sega and Sony would be the last company since they are rivals.  Microsoft had 14 YEARS to provide full funding of this project yet we see Sony providing funding and providing exposure on their E3 floor.  So you have a partnership between Sega and Microsoft but where is this full funding from Microsoft?  Stop making false claims and actually read the truth instead of writing "blah blah blah".  

I thought all of this information was rather obvious, which is why I skipped over it and provided recent examples of where Microsoft could have funded games but chose to look the other way.  Blame Microsoft for leaving Yu Suzuki out to dry for the past 14 years.  Sony was simply the company to pull him off the street and give him a job.

OK, for the sake of argument, I'll give you answers to thingst that I really didn't care to talk about in this thread. This thread is about how I felt shame to see one of gaming's Gods beg for money.

M$ didn't want to fund Shenmue 3. 2 sold like shit most likely and FYI Sega and M$ didn't join forces. It was a bought exclusive. The way exclusives worked when Sony bought them to fight Nintendo and Sega. Blah blah blah....

I don't care who funds what. I said if Sony fully funded this, I was good with that. Don't make one of my heroes beg for money.

Now back to feelinga. None of this technicality stuff. I felt ashamed man. Feelings are feelings.

A primary reference from the microsoft website itself stating multiple times about the partnership between Sega and Microsoft.  They also went on to state that Sega would provide software to the Xbox console by providing "many of Sega's upcoming games".

https://news.microsoft.com/2001/03/30/sega-and-microsoft-team-up-for-strategic-xbox-alliance/

Shenmue 3 was voted as XB1's most requested game.  M$ might have not wanted to fund the game, but the fans surely wanted it.  I thought they listen to the gamers: 

http://www.xb1.co.uk/xbox-one-news/shemnue-3-voted-xbox-ones-most-wanted-game/

however Phil Spencer states that that can't fund the game because "it's a Sega game" yet Sony managed to do what M$ deemed impossible one year later:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-s-phil-spencer-biggest-request-i-get-is-to-bring-back-shenmue/1100-6418687/

If you feel that Yu Suzuki is begging for money at a "charity" event, then that is your opinion.  Just keep in mind who Sega partnered with 14 years ago and who left him in this state with tattered clothes.  Again, Sony just gave him the money and exposure to make a long awaited game that fans seem to have wanted a long time ago.  Rather than feeling sad for the guy, you should feel happy and excited for a guy that has been forgotten for such a long time.  He has simply been given a second chance by none other than Sega's rival.