hazuki90 wrote: Let me start by saying im very happy for Shenmue 3 kickstarter announcement. But can someone explain to me how a $47 video million game is now funded at only 2 or 4 million. Something is not right here, as an open world game made in eight generation consoles, it should cost at least 20M. Looks like we are going to miss some chapters in shenmue saga and the story wont conclude in third installment. This will be a very dumb move if Suzuki decided not to finish the story in Shenmue 3
OL wrote:
Man, we're gonna get a lot of these posts, aren't we?
Like everyone is saying, there are surely other investors involved, and they'll be covering the grand majority of the budget. They just have to be shown first, through kickstarter, that there's enough demand.
One other thing to note though, the millions upon millions that went into Shenmue didn't only go into one game; that money was intended to have gone toward multiple games on the Dreamcast, but the series was cut short. It wasn't that they just pulled out 70 million, and that all went into the first Shenmue. That budget was part of a longer-term plan. Much of that money went toward research, travel expenses, the development of an engine that all of the games would have run on, prepared visual elements, sound elements, plus all the material that was scrapped early on, what with the Saturn version and all. Too much stuff to list.
A game like Shenmue, as a singular product, does not actually cost a full 70 mil. And since most of the story elements and visual design is presumably already finished for much of Shenmue III, this game will certainly cost something far below that mark.
Muscat wrote:Although Sony said before the announcement that they are fully independents but we welcome them in our stage. Man It was a good theater
sand4fish wrote: Last Shenmue differs from other Kickstarter projects.While some previous Kickstarters have underestimated production costs and needed further funding to bail them out, Shenmue 3 marks the first time that a campaign has so apparently set funding goals at arbitrary price points (to gauge and to generate hype for the Shenmue brand) rather than a figure that reflects the true cost of development. It’s a new role that crowdfunding has come to play in today's market. It's a given Sony and Yu Suzuki planned this thoroughly.
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