Sony has just confirmed that now that the Kickstarter goal has been reached they are in fact helping with funding and development of Shenmue 3

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DerNebel said:

ReimTime said:

But it seems so strange to have a deal based upon a variable like that. They could have funded it without asking for 2 million in Kickstarter first. I wonder how many people will be cancelling their donation now that it is exclusive (assummption)?

THat shouldn't be a problem, the Kickstarter specified that this was going to be PS4-PC only anyway.

Did it? I guess I missed that. I have some friends that were pretty sure it was coming to other consoles.

But that's a moot point. I'm still quite curious why they wanted to kickstart that 2 million. A funding deal would have been in the works for months before E3. Why wouldn't they have just funded the whole things? The interest was definitely always there. Maybe Sega was the variable; only agreeing to accept the offer if public interest was completely proven. Still doesn't make complete sense to me though.