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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FragilE^ said:

Roronaa_chan said:
I still don't get why they thought this was necessary. It was always going to reach 2M, come on. Am I missing something?

They just wanted to squeeze some money out of the fans. That's it. And now that all of those people invested real money in the game, they will make sure to defend their decision and promote the game. Money!

Come on, it's not like they were asking us to fund the next Uncharted or Halo. Shenmue is a series know for the financial risks Sega took back then and hasn't seen a release in like fourteen years. Some might say they could have done a survey to gauge interest instead, but money talks louder than words, not to mention Yu Suzuki might get the means to give fans a few goodies huge publishers might not have allowed them to...