Shenmue
Yu Suzuki’s magnum opus was a financial failure when all was said and done, despite strong critical acclaim and innovative new systems. Shenmue was in development for six years, going from Virtua Fighter RPG to a highly cinematic open world RPG in that time and costing $47 million to develop. Keep in mind that this was the mid to late 90s so that’s no small change by today’s standard. Shenmue 3 is finally happening and one hopes it avoids a similar fate.
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