Now that the hype surrounding the announcement of Shenmue III's Kickstarter project is dying down, fans are reflecting on the decision to reveal the project at Sony's E3 2015 press conference, and exactly what the publisher's involvement with the game is. After all, if Sony—a multi-billion-dollar company—is backing the project, why take to Kickstarter to ask for money in the first place?
The situation hasn't been helped thanks to comments made by Sony's Gio Corsi during a PlayStation E3 livestream. Corsi, the director of Sony's Third-Party Production department, explained that Sony and developer Ys Net set the Kickstarter goal to $2 million in order to gauge whether there was enough interest from fans in order to warrant making the game. "If the fans come in and back it, then absolutely we're going to make this a reality," he said during the livestream.
Given that the original Shenmue, which was made for the Dreamcast back in 1999, had a production budget of $47 million, clearly $2 million wouldn't be anywhere near enough cash to fund a game on the scale of Shenmue III. Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki even recently took to Reddit, saying in an AMA that he would need something closer to $10 million in order to "truly have the features of an open world."
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