By The series creator was asked about a sequel during a Q&A after his Shenmue postmortem at GDC 2014 in San Francisco.
"Of course I want to make one if I had the right opportunity. Dot dot dot," he told attendees including Digital Spy.
A separate question asked what the biggest challenges of development were, and whether modern-day technology would help solve those problems.
"The biggest challenge was probably that it was difficult to manage tons of characters," Suzuki said.
Shenmue postmortem: 10 revelations from Yu Suzuki's GDC talk
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"A system was not available at the time. If we were to fast forward to today, we could solve with an online environment or going online, which could manage a ton of characters whether nearby or faraway. That would be solveable if we were to make the game today."
He continued: "When it comes to cost performance, chapter by chapter we were introducing a brand new level.
"We had a very luxurious way of making these chapters and presenting them in a very gorgeous way.
"The cost performance from a purely development standpoint was not that great. We could do much better making something high quality, and could use the array of 3D engines available today."
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SEGA confirmed that a recent Shenmue 3 listing was fake, and was investigating the claim.
Meanwhile, another report suggested that game director Yu Suzuki was considering services such as Kickstarter to raise money for Shenmue 3.
A postmortem for Animal Crossing: New Leaf also took place at GDC 2014 earlier today (March 19).
Digital Spy is reporting live from GDC 2014 throughout this week.
Watch a trailer for Shenmue below:
