Followers have paid for a 15-second advert in the course of New York’s Occasions Sq. to marketing campaign for Ys Web to develop Shenmue 4. The chance of ever seeing a sequel to Shenmue 3 shrunk when it obtained a combined essential reception and didn’t promote notably nicely, however this hasn’t stopped fan web site Shenmue Dojo from beginning its marketing campaign.
The Shenmue 4 Occasions Sq. advert was to get Sega’s consideration
The marketing campaign from Shenmue Dojo goals to “help the continuation of the sequence and try and unfold world consciousness to seek out YSNET a possible associate for Shenmue 4.” A kind of potential companions was Sega, who was tagged in a comply with up Tweet that included a reside stream of the Shenmue 4 Occasions Sq. advert.
Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki defined that he “won’t ever quit alone private journey to finish its story” throughout the credit on the finish of Shenmue 3. Sadly, he then later revealed that the sequel relied on the gross sales of Shenmue 3 and whether or not developer Ys Web may discover a publishing associate. Whereas Shenmue Dojo can’t do a lot to repair the primary half, they’re undoubtedly making an attempt to assist with the second half.
The location did have some success as its advert was sufficient to get #shenmue trending on Twitter for a short while. It concluded with the message: “Thanks to everybody that helped to indicate their help with the timed mass tweets/posts immediately. It was very a lot appreciated and proves that collectively, as a collective, we are able to unfold the attention that we aren’t going to take a seat again with out a battle. We are going to proceed to attempt till Shenmue 4 is a actuality! #LetsGetShenmue4”
Shenmue 4 could be extra accessible to newcomers if it ever did occur. Suzuki has beforehand advised IGN that “an important factor is to make it pleasant with out understanding earlier occasions within the story. I don’t assume {that a} new participant needs to know 100% of the story. 20 or 30% could possibly be sufficient. In Shenmue 3, we applied a digest film that teaches the participant the primary occasions of the earlier video games, however for Shenmue 4 I wish to combine that half into the primary sport”.