Yama wrote: HD ports would be the easier and better solution.
Frankly I don't care about HD ports, and I really wish the Shenmue community would stop asking for HD port, because all that means is asking Sega to take a extra step to do something that Isn't needed.
All we should be asking for, is straightup ports of the dreamcast games(just utilizing the PS4 format for saving).
The Shenmue games are technically already HD anyway, why would you suggest everything be retooled(lol, infact such would probally lead to the super high quality "organically" created heads looking fake/cheesy as hell anyway), it was so ahead of It's time back then, games in the PS3 era barely even matched the graphics in most situations, there's no reason to be trying to make Sega do even more, then what is actually needed.
Even this era's graphic whores shouldn't be turned off by the graphics of the original Shenmue games. What we should be asking, is just to get straight up ports, then Sega doesn't have to do jack except, put them all on a PS4 disc(hell you can even put both games on the same disc, to make publishing a hell of a lot cheaper), remove the disc swapping process from the source code, connect it all together, and recode the save system to the PS4 format of save files.
Boom done, everyone wins. This has a much higher chance of success, then also expecting Sega to spend months retooling the graphics, for some superficial perception of what HD has become these days(remember when HD just mean clean char models/graphics, well now adays all it means, is making everything super artificially brighter, with some fake as all hell "shine" in the most literal sense of the word mind you, and to that, I say screw that).
Sega, just give us ports.