Amir wrote: I don't think it's really clear how many people from Neilo are working on Shenmue III. From Tak Hirai and the company's Twitter it seems they are involved involved in a bunch of other projects like smartphone games.
Yeah. Trying to divine the numbers is... a bit pointless.
WildManofBorneo wrote:Ryan Payton has no affiliation with Shenmue 3 except for being a fan of the series.
This is incorrect. He chairs the advisory board, according to the Back in my Play episode he first featured on.
Don't really know what the advisory board really does, but in models of Agile project management the input of a "stakeholder" from outside the development team is used to determine the path forward after a milestone or a release, so they could be an external body that advises the team as an outside view.