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

[Puppyroach]

Aeolus451 said:

Puppyroach said:

What would your views be if EA used Kickstarter for Fifa every year or Nintendo for the next Mario?

Well fifa and mario haven't been dead for awhile. It's apples and oranges.

A better scenario would be like chrono trigger or suikoden. To answer your question, I would be happy that I'm getting the game. 

And multi billion dollar companies cannot take the risk of creating a new Suikoden? It's an insane situation if that is the industry we are moving towards. And where do you draw the line? What is there to prevent this from being a tactic used by most major publisher, eventually resulting in Kickstarter being irrelevant for the smaller developer?