Rumor: ‘SHENMUE’ 1 AND 2 HD Have Been finished For A Year. Hitting XBLA/PSN…Sometime

I don’t give a fuck about Shenmue  or its sequel. I don’t. I know that deducts like, a zillion space-bucks from my e-peen, but whatever. So this news doesn’t do anything for me. However, there’s a lot of people that are going to be simultaneously joyous and apopleptic about this shit. If the rumors in the streets are true, Sega has been sitting on HD versions of Shenmue 1&2  for a year. Biding their time. Waiting.

Joystiq:

All right, before we go any further than that headline up there, we want everyone playing along at home to go to the kitchen and bring back one of those big cardboard cylinders of Morton’s salt with the little metal flap on top.

Got it? Okay great, because you’re going to need more than a grain for this one: HD versions of  Shenmue 1  and  2  have been completed for more than a year and are pending release on XBLA and PSN, according to  an anonymous source reporting to Gamerzines. The source goes on to say that Sega has been sitting on the remakes while it decides the fate of a potential  Shenmue 3, though the source did not specify what that fate is.

Look, we’re not saying that it isn’t true, or that we don’t want HD remakes of two of our favorite games ever, because  of course we do. We just want you to be careful and not get your precious little hopes up, only to have them dashed to pieces — your broken, mangled hearts never able to trust or love again.

Grr! I’m so angry! Like that day…with the sailors..and the rain turned to snow or something…Quicktime event…stuff.