Followers have paid for a 15-second advert in the course of New York’s Occasions Sq. to marketing campaign for Ys Internet to develop Shenmue 4. The probability of ever seeing a sequel to Shenmue 3 shrunk when it obtained a blended important reception and didn’t promote notably properly, 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 collection and try and unfold international consciousness to seek out YSNET a possible companion for Shenmue 4.” A kind of potential companions was Sega, who was tagged in a observe up Tweet that included a reside stream of the Shenmue 4 Occasions Sq. advert.
Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki defined that he “won’t ever hand over alone private journey to finish its story” in the course of the credit on the finish of Shenmue 3. Sadly, he then later revealed that the sequel trusted the gross sales of Shenmue 3 and whether or not developer Ys Internet may discover a publishing companion. 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 positioning 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 at this time. It was very a lot appreciated and proves that collectively, as a collective, we will unfold the attention that we aren’t going to sit down again with out a combat. We’ll proceed to attempt till Shenmue 4 is a actuality! #LetsGetShenmue4”
Shenmue 4 can be extra accessible to newcomers if it ever did occur. Suzuki has beforehand instructed IGN that “a very powerful factor is to make it pleasant with out realizing earlier occasions within the story. I don’t suppose {that a} new participant needs to know 100% of the story. 20 or 30% may very well be sufficient. In Shenmue 3, we carried out a digest film that teaches the participant the principle occasions of the earlier video games, however for Shenmue 4 I need to combine that half into the principle recreation”.
