Yu Suzuki: Sony and Shibuya Productions are not seeing a cent of your Shenmue 3 Kickstarter dollars

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twintail said:

Azerth said:
Ya but sony is helping fund it so why cant they hust give them 10mil to get the open world stuff

seriously not this rubbish again...

Sony's support for the game starts and end at assisting in production and marketing of the game.  They are not putting money into any form of development. 

This is in line with what they do with other indie developlers (of which some even release their games on other platforms because Sony has not invested in the actual game).

As Suzuki has said, funding comes directly from KS and only KS. Sony is helping with promoting the game, which is pretty much what they did at their conference: they promotedthe game and its kickstarter.

If that's true then I don't have much hope for this game. There is no way to make an open world game for the amount of money they'll get from Shenmue.