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MikeRox on 21 June 2015
Skullwaker said:
So, they basically gave the kickstarter support by announcing it at E3 and are paying for all of the marketing. I have to wonder exactly where they're going to get the money for the rest of the development, though. The original games cost quite a bit of money to make, and Shenmue III must cost an exponential amount two generations later.


Actually, Shenmue III will probably be far cheaper to make than the originals. The game will no longer be right up on the cutting edge of technology. So much voice acting etc, doing the lip synching, animations etc was all far more expensive back in the last 90s than it is now with lots of middleware and tools to do all of that. Previously it all had to be done bespoke for the games.

I also don't think Shenmue 3 is planning too be anything like the technical tour de force the original games were.



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plip.plop on 21 June 2015
joeorc said:

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UPDATE#2: Sony has clarified its role in Shenmue 3 in a recent official stream on the game, and revealed it's helping to bring Yu Suzuki's project to life.

Following its spectacular announcement at Sony's E3 conference, there were questions about what the company's involvement was, and why Shenmue 3 was going to Kickstarter at the same time as appearing on-stage. The $2 million amount announced as a goal on the Kickstarter - which was surpassed within 9 hours - doesn't appear to pertain to the game's entire budget, and instead has been used as proof of interest in the project before other investors dive in.

"Sony and PlayStation is definitely a partner in this game," Sony PlayStation's director of third party production and developer relations Gio Corsi. "It's going be run through third-party production. We're going to help YsNet get the game done. We're going to be partners on it the whole way."

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-16-kickstarter-campaign-launches-for-shenmue-3

Well there you go... I will wait for it to release to purchase this game.



tolu619 on 25 June 2015
plip.plop said:
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My .02 cents I'm not going to fund on KS anymore I already got burned on one KS where my $300 helped a douchebag pay for rent, and vacations. I'll pay full price for a product when it's on a store shelf.


Ouch. May I know which campaign this was? PM me if you don't want to publicly wreck the person's reputation, but I'm curious.



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Hynad on 25 June 2015

Here's an interview Yu-san did for famitsu when he launched Shenmue 3's kickstarter:

This should be read by people still confused about the project and everyone else, really, as it gives quite a lot of insight about Suzuki's vision for the game!.

http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1089690#p1089690



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outlawauron on 25 June 2015
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.



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yvanjean on 25 June 2015
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. 



outlawauron on 25 June 2015
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.



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yvanjean on 25 June 2015
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



outlawauron on 25 June 2015

And? Nothing you linked contradicts anything I said.



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