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

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Lawlight said:

twintail said:

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.

Witcher 2 was produced with 12M...

But as others have said, Ys Net has secured other funds from other sources, and the 10M is basically what's missing for Yu Suzuki to have enough money to make the game the way he envisioned it. People saying companies should just write a blank check to Ys Net so he can make his game have really no idea how businesses work. xD