Shenmue 3 Creator Says He "Could Do With a Bit More Money"

Another stink respons i hate to see...sega own the rights...fuk that shit...if they give the rights to make a shenmue 3...Then can give yu the rights to remaster and rerelease the damn collection....pssssss sony im waiting on my mass effect ps4 collection

I'm not sure why everyone is going ape about this. He's being honest. It's been confirmed that Sony are ONLY helping with marketing and physical production, not with development, so of course they needed more money to make it AAA. They would have needed more money even if it'd raised 30 million. But the point here is that he's doing what he can with the budget he's got. He's not saying it to beg for more money, he's just being up-front about what can realistically be done on that budget (+ modest amounts from Shibuya etc), and saying his solution is to concentrate on story rather than graphics. Not only is his honesty refreshing in this modern age of corporate shovelware, but his solution is also a POSITIVE.

Dreamfall Chapters was made on a much smaller budget, and it turned out looking good enough. Dreamfall's job is to tell a good story, and in that it's continuing to succeed. Shenmue will follow suit with this, so I don't think anyone needs to be panicking. And neither do they need to be shitting all over Yu Suzuki just because he's telling it like it is.

End of the day, most of these gaming journalism sites seem to be very much anti-Shenmue, and have been for about 6 years. Perhaps it's because it's not a traditional game in that gameplay isn't the focus, but experience and exploration and immersion and story is. Or maybe it's just hipster to hate on games you know nothing about, except for watching the first, slow hour on a Youtube channel once. But guess what? All of your "it'll never happen" BS and derisive snorting every time Shenmue 3 was mentioned means NOTHING. We're getting Shenmue, and I hope it annoys the hell out of you all.

I can't believe people are still falling for this.... are they?

A great story and awesome game play is all I need.

Well the good thing is I am sure Shen Mue will have visuals equal too or better than the original Dreamcast version had!

The problem is the average age of the Shenmue fan is now 35ish. These people are married, have careers, have kids, have ulcers. The chance of them even seeing a kickstarter page, let alone donating money to a video game when their kids need …well everything it seems, is rare. There is a huge difference in exposure between 'there is a kickstarter for shenmue3' and 'Shenmue 3 is for sale at Walmart'. See more below.

Another problem is a game franchise this old, with no recent games in that franchise, or even well known projects from the original developer to remind you of Shenmue — it is like trying to kickstart a game like Blaster for the Atari, or Vandal Hearts for the PS one, or Skies of Arcadia for the dreamcast-* there simply is a limited number of donors even aware of the games, no matter how great those games were*. I do not blame Sony for not fully funding this game- is the audience still around, is the taste for this kind of game still relevant, can Yu Suzuki pull it off, a quick look at his wiki page and you can see he has been inactive these last 15 years which questions whether he can pull off a large AAA game.

Make what game you can with what budget you have, that is all it takes. You are going to have to rebuild the franchise, not make Halo 5. IT is not 2002 anymore, you cannot just ride the tidal wave of love for the game 15 years later. People have moved on. Make a great small, short, game with a comparable price – one that shows you are relevant yet, and one that pulls back old fans and bring in new ones. Then Shenmue 4 will have the budget you are asking for.

From the worlds greatest Shenmue fan.

TLDR: can bite my shiny metal ass

The most successful video game kickstarter project ever (Star Citizen only made 2 million on Kickstarter) wants more money? Well, of course he does :P. Depending on your ambitions and visions, a game can always get bigger and that requires more money. I hope can make do with the funds he has, though, we don't want another broken up product like Broken Age.

This project stinks. It broke a record, that proves that there's a huge demand for it, so why no big publisher gets behind it? Oh, and sony is cheap as always.

"Kickstarter's not the only source of money," Suzuki said. "There's also funding from Sony and Shibuya Productions. Before we started Kickstarter, we had goals set around the budget--so if we only got $6 million, we'd create Shenmue 3 based upon what we could do with that $6 million."

Yeah, so.. you got $6 million but you only asked for $2 million. What's the problem? You charged about half a million just for 3 subtitles, another half million for ragdoll physics, a half million for some mini games. Maybe if you got cheaper translaters, and find more efficient ways to create some of the stuff you charged half a million for (license the physics engine) you'd have more money left to spend on the main game?

He should be able to do both with the 6 million that he got. I can't see why he's looking for excuses to do a average looking 720P graphics game, instead of 1080P. Because that's what he sound, he might do with the game.

If 6 million is not enough to develop the game then why did he make the kickstarter for 6 million and told people that's what he needs?

uh oh. Story over graphics?? Sonys gonna dump him if he cant get 1080p and 20 frames..

I could do with more money too. Except unlike him, I don't have Sony and others' backing.

lol

Well I'm not going to give you money, I've never played the first two games xD

I have nothing against Kickstarter projects, but he's being unrealistic.

Try and understand it's impressive this series has the respectable fanbase that gave it the funding it has currently.

You can't expect younger gamers, or even gamers that never owned SEGAs last console to throw money at Shenmue 3. It's not going to happen.

I think it would also be wise to research what exactly Suzuki Yu sans last games are. Does he and his team have a respectable list of recent games to back-up this project?

As Shenmue 2 is 14 years old.

Wouldn't be bumming for money if he had included Xbox One into development(that actually might have made it more expensive) but a niche game gets niche support either way.

If only this were a game about space travelling and combat. That way Suzuki would get away with asking people to throw him millions and millions of dollars and then he would be able to not do anything and just keep making empty promises.

now this cracks me up.

Typical Kickstarter scam... Ask for a certain amount. Once you have it, claim it's not enough and that the game can't happen unless you receive more. Beg at the fans and ask them to send money again. Rinse and repeat.

If it turns out decent, imma buy it for sure.