Maybe the recent change in leadership or at the top of Sega might alter their outlook or thoughts on shenmue and their other IP's? I doubt it but they're doing jet set, golden axe, street of rage and talking about VF. There are possibilities there but I think they're waiting for yu to find a publisher/partner so they can give him & Ys net the go ahead.
This is kind of what I’ve been pinning my hopes to recently. Shenmue doesn’t seem to fit into the style of games they’re bringing back on board, but you never know.
On another note, I was looking over YS’s end of year Famitsu things again earlier, the things he’s mentioned over the last few years - shooter/RPG, obviously related to Air Twister - collaborating with musicians, again Air Twister with Valensia (blergh, sorry) - collaborating with scriptwriters, this one hasn’t happened, and to my mind can’t be anything other than Shenmue related, surely? Plus his latest yearly thing leaned more on the storytelling element, which again, Shenmue.
Not saying anything is happening at all, but seems to be he’s still obviously set on getting it made, and if you look back over his annual Famitsu articles, they tie in with what he’d done with Air Twister, so… I’d like to think something is happening somewhere in the background, even if it’s just preliminary talks or whatever, even if it’s stretching on over (clearly) some time now.
Or perhaps I’m looking into things too much. Shrug.