Lots of games get sequels. Some of them Japanese games want, and others Japanese games want really bad. Game magazine Famitsu polled its readers about which franchise sequel they crave the most.

Here's the raw data:

(Oh, and do please tell us which sequel you would like!)

1. Sakura Taisen (aka Sakura Wars) 267 votes
2. Shenmue 249 votes
3. Okami 204 votes
4. Gotchaforce 189 votes
5. Xenogears 185 votes
6. Breath of Fire 180 votes
7. Rockman Dash (aka Mega Man Legends) 176 votes
8. Ogre Battle 174 votes
9. Chikyuu Boueigun (aka Earth Defence Force) 162 votes
10. Kowloon's Gate 151 votes
11. Shinobido 141 votes
12. Demon's Souls 123 votes
13. Rockman X (aka Mega Man X) 110 votes
14. Chrono 107 votes
15. Z.O.E 94 votes
16. Mother 92 votes
17. Romancing SaGa 90 votes
18. Senjou no Valkyria (aka Valkyria Chronicles) 87 votes
19. Justice Gakuen 82 votes
20. Medarot 81 votes
21. Subarashiki Kono Sekai (aka The World Ends With You) 79 votes
22. Shadow Hearts 77 votes
23. Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke 75 votes
24. Panzer Dragoon 72 votes
25. Baten Kaitos 69 votes
26. Infinite Undiscovery 65 votes
27. Lost Odyssey 65 votes
28. Wild Arms 64 votes
29. OZ 60 votes
30. Jet Set Radio 59 votes
31. Dewprism 58 votes
32. Ougon no Taiyou (aka Golden Sun) 57 votes
33. Another Century's Episode 56 votes
33. Estopolis Denki (aka Lufia) 56 votes
33. Fire Pro Wrestling Spike 56 votes
36. Biohazard Outbreak 55 votes
37. Eternal Arcadia (aka Skies of Arcadia) 54 votes
38. Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodou (aka White Knight Chronicles) 51 votes
39. Panzer Front 50 votes
40. Seiken Densetsu 48 votes
41. Front Mission 46 votes
42. Grandia 43 votes
43. Arc The Lad 42 votes
44. Bullet Witch 41 votes
45. Racing Lagoon 39 votes
46. Drag-On Dragoon 37 votes
47. Panekit 36 votes
48. Metal Wolf Chaos 33 votes
49. Tokimeki Memorial 33 votes
50. Famicom Tantei Kurabu 30 votes

I hope SEGA is looking at this. I want Shenmue 3 right now.

I also want the sequel for Xenogears. Make it happen SE.

The bold parts are the games that I want to have a sequel.

KOTAKU

way too little amount of votes - japanese people just don't like to vote in these polls (same with the famitsu "Most wanted" charts), which is why they aren't representative in any way

btw Sakura Taisen(Wars) is a SEGA game aswell (made by the same devs who did VC), so they might want to do that one first as it came out at nr1, heh

But I want shenmue 3. I want a conclusion in the story.

Wow.

Some of the 360 exclusives got a lot more votes than you'd expect.

this doesn't seem representative of Japan as a whole at all, seems to be just a small group of hardcore gamers. So many of these games didn't sell well to begin with or are well past their prime. Baten Kaitos sold horribly and still made the middle of the list.

I wouldn't mind seeing a new Sakura Taisen. Though with the series creator leaving Sega a while back and Sakura Taisen 5 not doing that great..I think the series is pretty much done. Closing the Sakura Taisen Cafe in Ikebukuro was also a good sign the series is pretty much done >_

Shenmue III should be made.

Just make sure its on both 360 and ps3 to maximize your sales potential.

It's time for Yu Suzuki and Sega to put us Shenmue fans out of our misery and finally give this series the closure that it thoroughly deserves.

There's a lot of Sega in this list :)

But whole list shows Japanise have good taste in gaming

well, well

It's true they never put Okami's port on Wii in Japan !

But anyway, most of these game would not sell, as bad as it feels

Shadow Hearts 4 + ZOE 3 plz