Think they'll release the first two on PSN? I really want to get excited about this but never had the chance to play the others :s
I would have thought Sega will do something within the next two years. It will probably be a straight port rather than a remaster due to the limited resources Sega has but hopefully you'll see a bundled pack for £15-20 in 18 months or so.
For making Shenmue I it cost so much money in R&D because it was so unique and each tool and section of the game had to be hand crafted and redesigned multiple times for it to work. The game was crazy ambitious for its time!
Shenmue III on the other hand will be more akin to a sequel to Shenmue II and in 14 years a Shenmue game has become far simpler to create as developers have to worry less about LODs, AI memory usage, storage space for audio, pathing calculations and all the other stuff that Shenmue was breaking new ground with when it came out years ago.
Shenmue III is going to be far less ground breaking than it's predecessors and will play more like a sequel to those old games. At least that is what I'm guessing the team will do with the resources they have to work with.