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yvanjean on 25 June 2015
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outlawauron said:
yvanjean said:
outlawauron said:
Soleron said:
Nice video. Going to KS for the creative freedom is the right reason.

Still, backers bear all of the financial risk (if the game doesn't complete, they get nothing), but if it succeeds, Sony will take all the profit (standard for any publishing deal). Sony can't lose, and that is NOT good because capitalism has to involve risk to be efficient.

Except for the burden and distribution for the title, which will absolutely be millions of dollars.

As an Xbox fan, you can't undermind the importance of what Sony did for this project. Sony did revive Shenmue by allowing them to kickstart the game on the biggest video game stage. 

You really think Millions will be spent on by Sony on marketing.... No. It's really important that fans understand that Sony is not funding development and that this project might already be suffering from this miss-communicaiton. 

Distribution is not like publishing a retail copy, Sony and Steam will simply add the game to digital library. The extend of Sony's marketing is going to put the game in the front of the PSN store during release. 

But that isn't true. There will be a physical PS4 copy that Sony will be distributing and incurring those costs. Distribution is exactly publishing a retail copy.

This project is most similar to Borderlands 2 on Vita, where Sony ported it and distributed the title.
Will there be a physical copy reward for PS4?

The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter will only be offering the digital download version for the PlayStation Network. If a physical copy was added as a reward, an announcement would be made on the update page

  • Your choice of a digital copy of the game for PC or PS4, or a physical copy for PC