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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VGPolyglot said:

Too_Talls said:
I will hold onto hope that I don't have to buy a ps4 for the game. there has been no rock solid announcement on full on exclusivity. certainly will start out ps4-pc as the kick starter was selling only copies for those platforms, but you have to pay attention in these things.

These companies brag openly about their deals when it's never being ported to another console.

He would have said something stronger than "we're definitely going to be a partner" if it was more to it.

While it is possible, Sony would be pretty generous funding and developing Shenmue III, only to let it be released on the competition. If it weren't for Sony the game wouldn't even exist.

If it weren't for the backers, Sony wouldn't have funded the game... There is something deeply unsettling about all of this.