Master Kyodai wrote: Don't give up hopes for a miracle. Tech has advanced every day since. So much pioneer work in Shenmue, sure SEGA licensed the CRI middleware for sound and video compression, but from todays view it is crazily expensive and time and resource consuming to write everything from scratch, the game engine, music formats and so on. Today you just license a 3D engine and add mp3/WAVE music and that's it. They even had to puzzle and trick a lot to have it fit on 4 GD-ROM. I think every day it gets cheaper and easier to make Shenmue 3.
I had given up hope on Duke nukem a decade ago. And then suddenly a miracle happened. Why not for Shenmue?
I'll never give up hopes, because sometimes a miracle does happen as you just showed.