Spaghetti wrote: SEGA rep kinda dodges the question on Shenmue HD in this interview: https://www.pcinvasion.com/sega-pc-port ... john-clarkPCI: Whenever Shenmue has come up as a potential future HD PC release, licensing issues have been cited. Is that accurate? What are the particular licensing issues there?
JC: Whenever you’re considering re-releasing games from the catalogue you assess everything from technology licences, music licences, voice over artist agreements, in game assets and so on. The more there are, there more time it takes to check.
Nothing new, but I thought I'd post it here all the same. Unfortunately this might inflame the same old arguments about licencing.
You mean the old argument where you insisted that the licensing issues referred solely to in-game product placement and had nothing to do with any tech/middleware? ;) In any case I don't think any spokesperson is ever going to get into more specific detail about which particular licenses were holding things up.