At this point i feel pretty good about there being a Shenmue III, but from what i'm seeing in polls and such it looks like many people believe there will be a shenmue IV and perhaps more installments.
Do we really believe that in spite of the less than stellar sales of Shenmue II on the Xbox, Suzuki will feel inclined to persue further installments?
Remember folks, games cost money. A lot of money. At the time of its release shenmue was the most expensive game of all time at an incredible $70 million, meaning for Sega to make a profit it would have to sell tons and tons of copies.
And lets be honest with ourselves, our community of Shenmue fanatics just isnt as large as we'd like to believe. I hate to play devil's advocate, but how can we expect Sega to contnue to make games just to satesfy a relatively small number of people?
Anyway, let me know what you think.