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PieToast on 18 June 2015

They should gauge the interest to these more than a decade old titles by browsing the Internet. That might not be a reliable source, but for some reason, it's better than giving these consenting adults the option to invest and basically purchase their favorite titles early.



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itsFizz on 18 June 2015
NiKKoM said:

it could set a precendent.. now its just 2 million.. " to gauge interest"... but what if they ask 30 million for the legend of dragoon.. the entire production budget..

Well If the rewards are similar to those of shenmue 3 I wouldn´t see a problem. If you backed shenmue 3 chances are you picked the 30$ or higher reward, which is a digital copy of the game. So if Sony comes out and goes like "Do you want to buy this game for 30$, even though it will release earliest in 2-3 years?" and if it is a game I want then hell yeah I´ll "preorder" it....



      
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HollyGamer on 18 June 2015

Thanks SONY without your money and idea to crowdfunded the games, there will be no Shenmue III, Just let all the hater be a hater, and i let they critic all the effort meantime i will just enjoy the games



GameMasterPC on 18 June 2015

They said they might do it with third-party titles not first-party and only to gauge the interest. I don't see the problem here.



Aerys on 18 June 2015

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Cloudman on 18 June 2015

This is a bit unsettling. I hope this means just people doing new things like Mighty No. 9 and Yooka-Laylee and not Sony crowdfunding their own IPs...



 

              

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MoHasanie on 18 June 2015
DerNebel said:
MoHasanie said:

I don't like it. For a big company like Sony, $2m is not much so asking people to donate money makes them look cheap. I hope they don't do it for other games. 

The point isn't really them needing the $2 mil, I guess that is going to be a rather small part of this games development cost, it's lowering risk, it's avoiding the funding of games that nobody wants. Especially with these older games it can be something good if used in moderation and for the right titles. Had they done the same thing for the FF VII Remake I'd be pretty pissed as well for example, because that game originally sold 10 million copies or so and Final Fantasy is still a huge series, but Shenmue wasn't really successful when it originally released, so it kinda does make sense to test the waters before just straight up funding the third part in a series that most people have never played in their life.

Would they do it for Crash Bandicoot, then that'd suck. Medievil? That's something where testing the waters makes sense again.

Well I still don't agree with it. Had Sony not been involved, and the devs were raising money on their own, then that would have been okay. But if they were simply researching the demand for the game, then just like Sony girl said, the views and likes of a trailer would have been a much better indicator of it's success. Its really not difficult to figure out the hype for a game and I don't think they need kickstarter. 



    

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Aeolus451 on 18 June 2015

They're gonna bring back old long dead series and some people are acting like they are kicking puppies.



GTstation on 18 June 2015
MoHasanie said:
DerNebel said:
MoHasanie said:

I don't like it. For a big company like Sony, $2m is not much so asking people to donate money makes them look cheap. I hope they don't do it for other games. 

The point isn't really them needing the $2 mil, I guess that is going to be a rather small part of this games development cost, it's lowering risk, it's avoiding the funding of games that nobody wants. Especially with these older games it can be something good if used in moderation and for the right titles. Had they done the same thing for the FF VII Remake I'd be pretty pissed as well for example, because that game originally sold 10 million copies or so and Final Fantasy is still a huge series, but Shenmue wasn't really successful when it originally released, so it kinda does make sense to test the waters before just straight up funding the third part in a series that most people have never played in their life.

Would they do it for Crash Bandicoot, then that'd suck. Medievil? That's something where testing the waters makes sense again.

Well I still don't agree with it. Had Sony not been involved, and the devs were raising money on their own, then that would have been okay. But if they were simply researching the demand for the game, then just like Sony girl said, the views and likes of a trailer would have been a much better indicator of it's success. Its really not difficult to figure out the hype for a game and I don't think they need kickstarter. 

No, not even remotly true.  But maybe you think a piewdiepie game would sale 10 million based of his views and likes.

Only true test of worth quality or potential success is the amount of $ backing it.  



GameMasterPC on 18 June 2015
Cloudman said:
This is a bit unsettling. I hope this means just people doing new things like Mighty No. 9 and Yooka-Laylee and not Sony crowdfunding their own IPs...

You should read the OP. Shuhei Yoshida states that they might do it for some third-party titles like Shenmue III and also was clear that first-party games would not be crowdfunded.