Viktor said:
"Funding" a project without any proof of concept in form of gameplay in the first place is ridiculous to say the least, they must have known that it was just a CGI trailer but used it anyway. Marketing tool for last years E3 at it´s most dishonest form in my opinion. |
Quick question. How much of Shenmue 3 do you think was developed before the E3 trailer? Or the Last Guardian when it was first announced. Ohh right. Practically nothing? The New Metroid game whose gameplay has been completely revamped in the past year? All Pitch videos made on concepts. That have yet to be hammered out. Shenmue 3 didn't even know what their funding level was going to be, much less what all of the gameplay features would be for a legitmate vertical slice, so how could they have possibly have presented that to Sony before funding?
If funding a project required having a vertical slice before funding could be acquired, then most games would never ever get funded. Most small studios need funding to produce that vertical slice. So to say it's ridiculous when a good chuck of games are funded without it, is a bit silly, don't you think?
Furthermore, let's say Sony gets a pitch from TW and Sony greenlights it for a vertical slice. E3 comes and Sony wants to see what TW's got, and TW says something along the lines of "we don't have a playable presentation demo", but we have footage of gameplay". So Sony takes their footage and makes a trailer out of it. What then? It's on Sony for not doing their due diligence? Well I guess, but then again, I suspect most of the studios Sony deals with are not borderline con artists.
