i think SEGA and am2 are keeping this project(shenmue 3)very secret and they must have leaked some information to GAME that's the best theory i can think of'because i really don't think that GAME would tell a lie.
I keep reading a lot here about how SEGA are keeping all
Shenmue III developments a "secret".
How can you tell the difference between Shenmue III being "a secret" and Shenmue III being "forgotten about"? Because that's what I think explains SEGA's silence on the matter.
And it's not about Game having told a lie. This isn't an article in a gaming magazine giving out a release date that isn't official. They just made a guess (with no real knowledge of the Shenmue world or recent events therein) that there might be a further sequel, since there already is one, and put a page that feeds into an automated system for recording an interest. It's not like they had a board meeting and said, "Let's wind up all the Shenmue fans in the world and pretend we know when it's coming out." It's more, "Hey, you, find out all the games with sequels, add one and make pre-order pages for them." "Yessir!" - and Shenmue just happened to be one.
About Phill54's pal who claims the release date came from the distributor - again, how can we judge this? If phill's telling the truth his contact might be lying - if the contact's telling the truth the distributor might be lying. Who knows, maybe a distributor talked to someone at AM2 and
they might be lying. It's all just hearsay and supposition.