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A new Shenmue has been revealed. The game is headed to a Yahoo! Japan gaming site. And apparently, Sega is apparently not involved. But Shenmue’s creator is.
The creator of titles like Virtua Fighter, OutRun and Shenmue has retired from his Creative Officer position at Sega of Japan, Sega announced this week. But the company isn’t done with Yu Suzuki just yet.
Venerated SEGA developer Yu Suzuki (Hang-On, Virtua Cop) changed the way people played. His titles have been revolutionary regarding how players interact with arcade games and arcade game cabinets. But Suzuki thinks there’s more than can be done. Like?
Sega president Simon Jeffery appeared to have misspoke on the employment fate of famed game designer Yu Suzuki when he told Gamasutra that the Outrun creator was no longer employed at the company. Turns out, he is! Hooray! Said to be bearing the title Creative Officer of Sega Corp., Suzuki may be (extremely) low profile and the opposite of prolific, but it appears he’s still getting his checks signed by Sega.
In Jeffery’s defence, the man isn’t in human resources. And no one wants a second visit from Sega of Japan’s correction ninja squad. They’ll cut ya.
Jeffery: Yu Suzuki Still With Sega As ‘Creative Officer’ [Gamasutra]
The hopes of a Yu Suzuki led Shenmue III have just become ground into ever finer particles, as Sega of America president Simon Jeffery tells Gamasutra in a new interview that the legendary developer is no longer at the company.
Jeffery says of Suzuki’s status that “Last I heard, he was doing some online stuff in China”, saying that the Space Harrier and Virtua Fighter creator is “kind of his own man right now”. Suzuki’s recent projects, the arcade game Psy Phi and MMO Shenmue Online never made it to final production stages.
There’s obviously much more to the Jeffery Q&A and, as you may be aware, we’re fans of the frank Sega exec — and not just because he kept hope alive for a System 16 compilation. The entirety of the interview is worth your while.
The Evolution Of Sega: A Conversation With Simon Jeffery [Gamasutra - thanks, Jay!]
