Prozac for Altered Beast!

I have a question about Shenmue 2 US version on the Xbox.  How will either Microsoft or Sega benifit from this?  The Japanese gamers have already played Shenmue 2, so it won\'t help the Xbox sell in Japan at all.  And all this does is make tons of Sega fans mad, which will hurt Shenmue 2\'s sales, and the Xbox\'s sales in America.  Bad move by Sega.

For those of you planning on importing from Europe, that won\'t work either.

http://www.gamerweb.com/content/tgs101101_06.html

"Sad but true. A game that was to be Dreamcast\'s grand finale, the last spectacular title on the machine, has been cancelled and is now coming to Xbox instead. The Japanese release of Shenmue 2 on Dreamcast hit stores last month, as you will know from our huge coverage. But that\'s all. No DC version in the US, and we\'re reliably informed, Europe either."

Sega, what have you done to your fans?!!

Originally posted by IronFist

Sega, what have you done to your fans?!!

Screwed them and taken their money..
Like a true *****! :rolleyes:

I like Shenmue, but not enough to buy an Xbox. I\'m really not that surprised by the move, Sega always manages to take a strength and turn it into a weakness. On the upside of things, Sega just helped me free up about $50.

People who say that Sega has given up on their fans aren\'t Sega fans and never have been.

Your opinions come with exactly 0 (see that in bold?) weight behind them.  Look at L-I-C, he is a Sega whore, not nearly as much as me, and he is disappointed, but not NEARLY as much as he is excited about the possibilities and outcome.

Alot of you were going to buy an X-Box or were close too it, with Panzer Dragoon and Shenmue II exclusive, how many more reasons do you need?

who turned it\'s back on it\'s fans? SoJ if anything. SoA had DC selling great, considering it\'s dillema, but SoJ canned it anyways, sure games will get released there first, not sell well, so they can them for America, none of these choices come directly from SoA, NONE!

So quit *****ing about games you don\'t care about, nor a company you never cared for!!!!!

Sega has done the right move, and if you read the Charles Bellefield interview on IGN, you will realize that this is the ONLY way for the Shenmue series to continue, on a system that can handle it\'s scope, it\'s vision, and it\'s capabilities.

You people sicken me to the fullest.


Eric Jacob

That was a nice rant Altered, but how does this help Sega with the sales of Shenmue 2 or Microsoft with the sales of the Xbox in Japan?  I understand the future possibilities (read: 2 to 3 years from now future), but Sega screwed its fans with Shenmue 2 whether you are willing to accept it or not.

Originally posted by AlteredBeast
People who say that Sega has given up on their fans aren\'t Sega fans and never have been.

Your opinions come with exactly 0 (see that in bold?) weight behind them.  Look at L-I-C, he is a Sega whore, not nearly as much as me, and he is disappointed, but not NEARLY as much as he is excited about the possibilities and outcome.

Alot of you were going to buy an X-Box or were close too it, with Panzer Dragoon and Shenmue II exclusive, how many more reasons do you need?

who turned it\'s back on it\'s fans? SoJ if anything. SoA had DC selling great, considering it\'s dillema, but SoJ canned it anyways, sure games will get released there first, not sell well, so they can them for America, none of these choices come directly from SoA, NONE!

So quit *****ing about games you don\'t care about, nor a company you never cared for!!!!!

Sega has done the right move, and if you read the Charles Bellefield interview on IGN, you will realize that this is the ONLY way for the Shenmue series to continue, on a system that can handle it\'s scope, it\'s vision, and it\'s capabilities.

You people sicken me to the fullest.

OK, you can take Sega\'s wang out of your anus now. They screwed their American Shenmue fans. Do you think all of us want to buy a new console just to play the sequel? I could see if the sequel was announced for the Xbox. IT was announced for the DC and was a little over a month away from being released. I had my pre-order ready and everything. YOu yourself said that SoA did a good job selling the DC in the US, so why not release the game that most of us are still holding on to our DCs for?

Will I get Shenmue when it eventually launches on the Xbox? Yes; but that doesn\'t mean its not a kick in the balls to a lot of Sega fans. Despite what your fanboy brain(oxymoron?) is telling you.

Thank you Gohan, you saved me a heck of a post.

SEGA fan here, and I am extremely disappointed. SHenmue II was done on DC already, what SEGA should have done is continued the series with Shenmue III on the XBOX and announce that as exclusive. I don\'t care what you think Beasty, SEGA gave us the shaft, and swallowing it doesn\'t make you any better of a SEGA fan.

/ dm /

You\'re right, Sega did give the 100,000 people who would of bought that game the shaft. DC is dead, it\'s time to accept that. Sega is only making a good business move. Throw pebbles at them all you want, but the fact remains Shenmue 2 will sell more on Xbox then it wil on the DC. And money is all that\'s important for them right now. Money\'s all that is important to every developer out there.

fatson,

Screwed them and taken their money..
Like a true *****!

And what do you call Sony\'s PS2 launch? Sony fan\'s appreciation day? By giving a lot of it\'s fans faulty units? GOD BLESS THEM. I love seeing people getting ripped off by the company they praise so heavily. Sick humour? Yes. But humour nonetheless.

Originally posted by Goku

And what do you call Sony\'s PS2 launch? Sony fan\'s appreciation day? By giving a lot of it\'s fans faulty units? GOD BLESS THEM. I love seeing people getting ripped off by the company they praise so heavily. Sick humour? Yes. But humour nonetheless.

So if you got a faulty PS2?
Every system has a few faulty consoles.
You get it replaced for free.. The only thing you pay for is time..
It takes them about 1-2weeks to send you a new one..


PS: Btw, you spell my nickname F A S T S O N... I dont know if you knew that Gurkan..

Originally posted by fastson


So if you got a faulty PS2?
Every system has a few faulty consoles.
You get it replaced for free.. The only thing you pay for is time..
It takes them about 1-2weeks to send you a new one..

No, mainly just Sony\'s. Gotta love them I don\'t know anyone who had a probem with their N64 or DC.

PS2 has a "X" day warranty. Once it expires, you can\'t return rn it for free. You must now pay a ridiculous price to fix it and wait a very long time(example:Luke). Kudos to Sony again.

Do I even need to mention the shortage at launch? I think not.

PS: Btw, you spell my nickname F A S T S O N... I dont know if you knew that Gurkan..

Gurkan? LoL. C\'mon, a fourth grader could insult my name better than that. Spin again.

so import it. Quit *****ing, wait another month and import the UK one. Or don\'t wait at all and get the Japanese one, or wait for the X-Box one.

You guys seem to think that you have no options left now that X-Box has it exclusive in the US.

Sega hasn\'t made a profit in over 5 years. The guy who used to bail them out all the time DIED. They now actually need to stop caring for each individual\'s cries of sorrow and try and make some money. It\'s no doubt that Microsoft paid ALOT for this game exclusive, none at all. And the CHARLES BELLEFIELD inteview (no one read it, I am guessing) explained that even if they did release SII on the US DC, the sales COULDN\'t ever match what they put into the game, couldn\'t. they need a profit, see where I am going with this!


Eric Jacob

Originally posted by Goku
fatson

lol!... Funny thing about it is that I did the same thing a couple of months ago. I just didn\'t see the "s" there.

Oh, and I never did apologize for doing that... Sorry fastson. ^_^;

Originally posted by AlteredBeast
so import it. Quit *****ing, wait another month and import the UK one. Or don\'t wait at all and get the Japanese one, or wait for the X-Box one.

You guys seem to think that you have no options left now that X-Box has it exclusive in the US.

Sega hasn\'t made a profit in over 5 years. The guy who used to bail them out all the time DIED. They now actually need to stop caring for each individual\'s cries of sorrow and try and make some money. It\'s no doubt that Microsoft paid ALOT for this game exclusive, none at all. And the CHARLES BELLEFIELD inteview (no one read it, I am guessing) explained that even if they did release SII on the US DC, the sales COULDN\'t ever match what they put into the game, couldn\'t. they need a profit, see where I am going with this!


Eric Jacob

I tried explaining that to some angry DC fans on some other boards, they weren\'t even trying to listen... Too upset, I guess.

too blinded by anger sounds more like it.

I think the pissed off fans, fans that stuck with Sega after SegaCD and Saturn died off, will return shortly, back into the comfortable fold of Sega games.


Eric Jacob