Yu Suzuki has announced a Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 at E3 2015! You can find the link here, although Kickstarter is having trouble at the moment handling the requests:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3
The official website for the game: http://shenmue.link/
The goal is $2,000,000. The game is being built on the Unreal 4 engine for PC and PS4. That should be an easy target to reach for Shenmue fans! At the moment, it seems only the PC will receive a physical copy, with a digital copy being an option for PS4. However, a lot can still change, especially seeing how fast the Kickstarter is heading towards its goal!
At the moment, three new areas were announced as stretch goals: Baisha, Choubu and Bailu Village. Baisha is set at $4 million, while the goals for the other areas have yet to be announced.
The three areas set as stretch goals for the Kickstarter.
Smaller stretch goals include cinematic shorts for Shenmue 1 & 2, subtitles in German, French, Spanish and Italian, a Rapport and Skill Tree system and mini-games:
The game’s release date is currently set at December 2017. As expected, Sega appears to retain the copyright to the series, with the copyrights notice for the game mentioning both SEGA and Ys Net.
