I mean i dont know Yu Suzuki personally so i dont know his mindset
but you have to remember that all of these news are from the west,
english, german, spanish, french sites and all of the Twitter stuff
is in english. The japanese news are only reposts of western news.
So in some kind of 'worst case' scenario i guess
it could still be Yu Suzuki just being happy / glad that there are still people asking about Shenmue
and he isnt commenting on anything because he isnt working on it, they are working on something else
or its still in a very early stage. Its not that easy to look at it from all the perspectives
when we dont know what the real final goal is. Sure, this whole thing is suspicious
but its still the internet.