Dude, Shemue 3 is finally happening. Turn off the hate meters and revel in it. What if Sony have deals? What if they get money for the development? I don't care and neither should you because they made this impossible dream a reality for us.
For one moment, just be happy man.

Agreed! I expected many more people to notice this isn't a good thing but I guess because it's for Shenmue it will be overlooked this time.

The Kickstarter ain't from SEGA, it's from Ys net (a smaller developer) and SEGA doesn't seem to be involved in the project.

Yu Suzuki left SEGA in 2011 and founded Ys net: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134782/yu_suzuki_at_a_time_of_transition.php

He wanted to licence Shenmue from SEGA since 2012: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/06/yu-suzuki-expresses-interest-in-obtaining-shenmue-license-from-s/

Just like Telltale games licenced "Monkey Island" from LucasArts for "Tales of Monkey Island" or Replay Games licenced "Leisure Suit Larry" from Activision for "Larry Reloaded".

And obviously Yu Suzuki / Ys net succeeded in getting the licence rights and the permission to make a Shenmue-successor.

Without Dave Grossman (Telltale games), Al Lowe + Paul Trowe (Replay Games) and Yu Suzuki (Ys net) these games wouldn't have happened because LucasArts, Activision and SEGA weren't interested enough to make new games with their old IPs.

there is no stretch goals for other platforms, it says PS4 PC, so presumably Sony have some kind of vested interest in this. You also cant make a Shenmue game for $2m, so there must be a good chunk of money or development help coming from somewhere. 

Taking risk away might be good thing for companies, but risk doesn't just disapear it transfers to consumers. That is what this argument is about, whether risk should be with consumer or devs/publishers. So if this becomes a trend you're at danger of creating a system in which consumers take risks (dev costs). However, the reward, which is profit, remains all for the companies.

Receiving the game should not be seen as the reward for consumers, because the creation of the game should not depend on donations by consumers prior to development. Backing doesn't provide additional reward compared to traditional system in which you buy a game after release and you have insight in whether it's actually lived up to what it promised.

See Shenmue II cost 70 million to develop (equivalent to 99 million in 2015). I think it's safe to say the 2 million from this kickstarter won't make or break the budget.

I must admit the irony was not lost to myself :)

I don't mean stockholders, but just standard consumers. It's up to publishers or companies to fund and sell these sort of things, not us. Businesses sell us the product, and we either buy it or don't. That's business. You're also assuming because Shenmue has never been on a Playstation, that it will not sell well, which is not the case. There are games that have done the same and have sold well.

Without the Sony E3 Hype, this kickstarter wouldn't even reach its goal within 8 hours.Basically free promo on Shenmue. That is a contribution that cannot be measured by numbers. They actually did something and that was to bring awareness to a cult classic like this game. Hype is the word and you'd be a fool to think $2M is enough to fund this game.

yeah, I thought it was shady, happy shenmue III is finally happening but, I can totally see this turning into a trend. The rich get richer.