Shenmue 3 kickstarter - finished!! $6,333,295!!

Just passed the $5.8 mill mark. Averaging $45-$50k per hour. Hitting the $6 mill mark seems quite doable with 7 hours left.

I initially thought we were going to finish off at $5.8 mil, but it looks like we'll hit some of that battle system stuff after all. Yu Suzuki is going to have a stream starting at 4:00 PST btw.

Star Citizen only raised $2 million on Kickstarter. The rest came through PayPal donations during development over the next three years. If Shenmue III goes the PayPal route after the Kickstarter campaign ends, then I can see it raising over $10 million during development. But I don't think it will ever need to raise as much money as Star Citizen.

Just passed the $5.9 mill mark. Averaging $100k about every 2 hours 20 minutes. Should break $6 mill in another 2.5 hours.

If we're being honest SC didn't 'need' it either they just kept coming up with stretch goals all the time and people kept giving them money. Suzuki definitely needs more than 5 or 6 mil to make the game he wants to make. At least he won't keep moving the goalposts like SC so he should remain focused and can raise a bit more post KS if he decides to go that route. I don't see he has a choice or you will just get Shenmue 3 Episode One which will piss people right off.

Just a point.

SC actually raised 6.5M in 1 month. It's just that quickly after the KS launched, CIG opened the RSI site, like they always planned to do. After that, most donations switched there. Ense why only 2M came from KS, while the vast majority where the site.

While SC is the biggest crowdfunded project of all time, it's also the game to reach the highest money during a KS/CF campaign. Which honestly only makes SC look even more impressive.

Still, i'm happy S3 is doing great.

Funds are at $5,993,510

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3

$6 million dollar mark completed! I honestly didn't think it would make it this far. Congrats to Yu Suzuki and all the fans!

I thought that funding will stop at 4.8 millions! This is a great news!

Go to vegas, one round of roulette on black/red or odd/even, double money... or not. But the choice could be between doing his $10 million vision or not.

LOL Imaging if Yu Suzuki really doing that? Freaking lost all 6 millions kick starter dollars in 1 shot?

6 million and still counting, with 3 hours to go. I wonder if it will reach the $6.5 million stretch goal by then?

http://www.twitch.tv/shenmue3official

Q/A with Yu Suzuki starts in less than 10 minutes.

That's when death threats in this industry start becoming a real concern

The Q&A has started.

Go Forrest!!!!

no it's not. I guess Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, divinity original sin, tides of numenera, and star citizen all are great. (and the first 3 are released finished 100% games, two of which are being ported to console).

You people who are agianst kickstarter aren't thinking clearly. Have fun with nothing but FPS military shooters, mobas and racers, as that's all you will get as publishers don't want to take risk on AAA games unless it's guaranteed. This is where kickstarter comes in.

You really haven't been paying attention huh? He already mentioned other funding sources. In fact most kickstarters do this. They raise interest and get the rest from venture capitalists who need to know there is interest in the product before they foot the bill.

Awww yeah well over 6 million now!

At the rate it's going, it might make it to the next goal at $6.5M, Battle System Expanded: Ragdoll Reaction. I just reserved a PS4 physical copy. Never backed a kickstarter project before, but I've been wanting a sequel to Shenmue II for many years, so hopefully it turns out good.

Edit: looks like they won't get to $6.5M. Anyway, should be a good game.

If you have pledged less than $60, please consider increasing it so you can get a physical copy of the game. You can then sell the game after it's completed to get your money back.

Your money is more useful to the devs at this point in the development cycle rather than after the game is finished, so please try to increase your pledge if at all possible.

If it even sees the light of day.

@tubbyc: the pledges are really rolling in right now, but I don't think it'll make $6.5m.

Just put in my $60

70,000 backers..........that really shows how cult this game is.

Good thing this KS is with the Sony fans because it would fail miserably anywhere else. I'm still sad about the Eternal Darkness spiritual successor.

This game could be on literally any other platform including PC and it would have reached this point all the same... People putting money into a game like this are not concerned with where it's going to exist, it's the fact that it's going to exist is why it's being funded...

@nyadc: The only KS MS fanboys would back would be COD and we all know about trying a KS with Nintendo.

You are extremely small minded, ignorant to boot.

@nyadc: I'm just being realistic.

Thanks gods they didn't hit 10 million.

Why?

Because he's an asshole who doesn't want people to have nice things.

based on what?

Oh..just fanboyism. Did you forget the original xbox had shenume 2? no doubt this kickstarter would have gotten alot closer to 10 million if an xbox one version was announced

@lawlessx: Must I remind you that Shenmue isn't a shooter.

My body is ready.

Shut up.

lol at the people rushing at the final hour as if it didn't have its goal. I really hope it shows in the game.

@nyadc: Yes and the series went on absent since going to Xbox. Dudebros didn't buy Shenmue 2 and it was dead for over a decade.

The irony of your comment is that the PlayStation 4 is the dudebro CoD console now...

@nyadc: Not really. PlayStation gamers are open minded and buy everything but wiith Xbox it is all COD or some generic FPS.

With $6.333m raised, it was only 167k away from the $6.5m stretch goal...

Either way, Shenmue is now officially the most-funded Kickstarter video game of all time, and the sixth most-funded Kickstarter campaign of all time.

Pfft. Freaking Shenmuedandies.

Yeah, a bunch of dipshits who didn't bother playing past the first two hours of the game which is where it starts to open up and actually build towards something. Shenmue wasn't a bad game by any means, but the start of the game was admittedly too slow and people lost interest as a result which is why it has this universal negative view from outsiders. They never bothered to actually get into the game or allow it to open up, they just turned it off and wrote it off.

@nyadc: Take a joke man. Just learn to take a freaking joke.

Here's quite a great level in Shenmue 1.

I know your intent was a joke but what those guys were saying was not, they just came off like a bunch of mainstream hugging idiots.

BTW I forgot to mention this, they only did the gameplay video like this because of the exaggerated reactions of the Game Trailer guys. lol.

Through PayPal they'll reach 10 million easily and we can have the shenmue Suzuki wanted to make. Gonna be At Least two to three years of wait, hope Sega release an HD collection next year.

You're a Shenmue guy? It can't all be because Sega, right?

6 million is a good start and I'm sure they can take it further with PayPal donations however this game still doesn't look as big as it's hype , that in-engine trailer wasn't really promising