These days i've been wondering what the final budget for Shenmue 3 is, considering we more or less already got 99,9% of the crowfunding money we could.
So, a few facts:
- Total money from kickstarter was $6.333.295 millions
- Paypal money is now around $250k
- YS net secured other funding sources besides crowfunding money
Shenmue will be produced using both the funds raised from the Kickstarter and through other funding sources already secured by Ys Net Inc.
- Shibuya is helping with production and marketing (and publishing PC version) and Sony is helping with production, marketing and some publishing support (or maybe just the publishing support? info on KS page is a bit contradicting)
So, we got 6.333.295 from KS, let's say 2% of the money couldn't be processed for various reasons (just guessing the %, i cannot find an official average number), that reduces the money to 6.206.629.
Of that the KS page states 65-72% goes to game development, let's use 68.5% for the calc since it's the middle number, that puts the total going to the game at $4.251.541 millions.
Add the 250k from paypal and we have a total of $4.501.541 millions collected via crowfunding
So, the questions now are:
1) How much are the funds secured by YS net? the only thing that can help us guessing here is that they were ready to make the game with just $2m money from KS (1.370.000 after the other expenses).
2) What could be the minimum budget for a 3d game that Sony would let an independent dev make for PS4? if we subtract the minimum KS goal money from this total we should have the private funds secured by YS net.
3) Is Sony and Shibuya's involvement counted in the "private funds secured by YS net" or are there other investors?
4) What % of the total budget are usually the marketing and publishing costs?
Feel free to add your insight and guesses.