Yu Suzuki has left Sega

http://kotaku.com/5035655/shenmue-creator-yu-suzuki-no-longer-at-sega

Lets see... Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Yu Suzuki, Yukio Futatsugi, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Yasuhiro Taguchi... yup, Sega is officially NOT Sega anymore.

 

Wow this has pretty much crushed all hopes of Shenmue 3 now not like it was ever going to happen anyway :-(

 

Sega hasn't been Sega for ages...

These days, only their arcades are great.

 

Great, even the legend himself left. Lights out, close the door.

 

Well, that certainly puts a damper on things.
I hope he and Itagaki form a company together or something.

 

That really makes me sad, even thinking about Sega makes me thing of it as a whole different company these days.

 

Not necessarily. It depends on if Sega has 100% the rights (Which, honestly, they probably do). Plus, if Suzuki could get the funds to do it, or most of them, on his own, and there would be little to no harm to Sega (plus money if it does well), then if anything, we have a larger chance

 

That would suck.

 

Ok here's the plan

1. Buy a huge berlap sac

2. We pool our money together and buy the rights to shenmue

3. We use the huge berlap sac and kidname Suzuki san

4. we make him finish shenmue

 

Knowing Sega they'll probably get some half ass developer that had nothing to do with Shenmue to make Shenmue III, only it won't really be Shenmue III, it'll be a remix/upgrade of Shenmue and Shenmue II.

Kinda like Thunder Force VI. :evil:

 

Why?

 

B/c we don't need Shenmue beach volleyball.

EDIT: Lemme 'splain this way. I would akin this to the many "Artist X Featuring Singer Y" that is now commonplace in the overground music world (or at least is the handful of times I turn my head in the gym and see MTV). Usually I hate both artists on their own, but in the case where it's one I think is half decent, the song kinda sucks. While I won't shit Ninja Gaiden as a franchise (the first one held my interest for a bit) I can't really credit the guy as a force to be reckoned with. Remove the jiggle from DoA, and he's just another game maker.

 

T__T

 

We can always hope Borman. I believe Sega owns the rights but like you said maybe when Suzuki gets his own company going maybe Sega will let him develop the game.

Also reading the article it doesn't say that hes left for good?

 

hey guys, calm down, suzuki didn't left sega.

it's only again the "coordination" of sega of america and sega of japan.

there isn't more than speculation

 

There ya go

 

afaik kotaku is a pos. is there another source?

 

Kotaku is a piece of crap when they try writing, its hard to butcher a straight interview (though it could be done I guess)

 

simply put...not true.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19807

 

http://www.seganerds.com/2008/08/12/relax-yu-suzuki-still-with-sega/