Shenmue confirmed for ps2!?!?! From da man Yu Suzuki!?!!?!?

In NextGen Magazine, in the recent issue with Tina on the cover, there is a feature on "The 25 most powerful and ifluential people in the game business." Under number 21, there is Yu Suzuki. Under "What\'s next," it says, "The story is not complete - expect the Shenmue series to continue on PlayStation 2, but on a grander scale."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  If this is true which it sounds like it is.  This is breaking news it makes me glad I brought a ps2.  I hope this is true  maybe sega will shed more light on it at the TGS show.  Thoughts guys?

I\'ve never played any of the shenmues. I heard it got mixed reviews from alot of game sites. I\'m looking forward to see the next Shenmue on PS2 soon.

Hm... I was hoping it would come out for the Xbox. But this is great news.

If it is not a direct quote from Suzuki-san, then treat it as just that, a rumor.

He is working heavily on PS2, though, but I pray he realizes the benefits that the harddrive and power of the X-Box could do for Shenmue.

please X-Box, please!


Eric Jacob

GAMES, shenmue is one of the greatest game I\'ve played.  You have good taste in games so you problem would like it.  ITs like an fighting rpg kinda with a real epic storyline.  One day you will have to play it.  I plan on buying shenmue 2 when it comes out for dc.     Hey games here\'s a link with more info on shenmue for you........enjoy.      http://dreamcast.ign.com/reviews/14499.html

Wow 9.7, I didn\'t expect it to get that high of a score. I\'m definetly going to check it out sometime.:cool:

I heard the sequel was even better so I can\'t wait to see how that scores.:cool:

My freind has a Dreamcast, I going to tell him to get it so I can see Shenmue II.

Good.........you have to see that game.  Its awesome.

Cool!!  Thats great new!  I can\'t wait for more games to come over to PS2.

pstwo it just gets better with vf4, soul cailbur 2,   FFX, tekken 4, and shenmue series coming to the ps2.  I don\'t think sony got too much to worry about.

Yep, and I can\'t wait for Mario to come to PS2, too.

you guys can assume all you want, but don\'t hold your breath until Suzuki states it himself. Rumors turn out false all the time, hardly ever do they turn out correct.

So let\'s all not assume anything.


Eric Jacob

I don\'t care what console Shenmue goes to; but that was NOT a quote from Suzuki. It was from the NextGen editor writing that article.

Well something like that could be true, I don\'t know.

I do know that I am really disliking Next Generation Magazine.  I have subscribed to it for years now, but they laid off most of their good staffers and are practically Sony fanboys now.

The magazine has gone down hill in the last year to be a total fanboy magazine.   They are sometimes so biased towards Sony that they look like people on this forum and on gaming age forums such as Gigadent and Amon.

The magazine should be renamed Sony\'s Next Generation.

I hope its true..

I\'ve heard rumors that Shenmue 1, 2 and 3 are going to be on PSTuu

Let\'s wait for TGS!