SHENMUE 3 Has Been Delayed And Will Not Come Out For A Whole Year

It seems that today we're getting lots of announcements about delayed games.Earlier today we found out that Metro Exodus was being pushed back to 2019 as the company wants to deliver a better experience and now it's the turn of Shenmue 3 to be delayed, as well.

Shenmue 3 is the result of an ambitious Kickstarter campaign that was announced at the E3 back in 2015. Needless to say, the campaign was successful with a staggering $6.3 millions made, surpassing its $2 million goal, and becoming the most-funded Kickstarter campaign ever - even to this day.

According to Polygon, via an official post by Deep Silver, the Shenmue 3 is being delayed to 2019 because the developer want to polish the the game to hold it to a higher standard. Companies tend to do this when the product is either not finished, or when they want to add more stuff to the game that they didn't consider adding in the first place. In fact, a lot more companies should learn from this instead of releasing glorified Early Access titles in hopes to cash in on the money from disappointed gamers that thought the game was a finished product. 

In the meantime, fans can still look forward to the Shenmue I & II HD remasters that were announced about a month ago and are expected to be coming out this 2018.

The year is 1986, the place Yokosuka, Japan. The normally tranquil day-to-day life of Ryo Hazuki
is suddenly and irrecoverably shattered by uninvited visitors. A man wearing dark green Chinese clothes appears
at the Hazuki family home with two black-suited thugs. This man uses a powerful style of martial arts, the likes of which Ryo has never before seen, to engage his father Iwao in a fierce battle. Ryo attempts to intervene and help his father, but the obvious disparity in power is too much. Ryo is beaten down and taken hostage as the man questions Iwao, “Where is the mirror.”