SEGAbits Shenmue III Hype Train! Update: Funded but lets go further!

[George]

I dunno if I'm understanding your logic right here, you think SEGA put 80 million dollars into a project thinking it wasn't going to sell and be a world wide hit like Virtua Fighter was in Japan? You think they said "You know what? I know we just lost a ton on the Saturn, but we need to fund this Shenmue game. It will sell 1.5 million copies and send us deeper into debt!"

You do know not selling as expected and being a cult franchise that was unappreciated is fine, right?   Shenmue supporters feel like the game was a huge success and SEGA 'just decided' not to make a sequel because it 'hates money'.

The funny thing is, SEGA lost the most money it ever did during the Dreamcast era.

[max_cady]

94% funded. It'll be fully funded by lunchtime.

[Tad]

We don't actually know how much it cost as Yu Suzuki himself has said two different numbers. 80 to me, seems far too high even back then personally.

What I'm saying is, they wanted Shenmue to be a big title for them and they poured money into. However, expecting Shenmue to "save" the DC even back then was ridiculous. It was already dying before it was released and it's unlikely one game would turn that around. Throw in the theory that it needed to sell twice as many copies then the DC sold just to hit profit and it's even more absurd.

Take the stupidity of that out and simply work off the the number of DC's around, it sold well. On a more successful console, maybe it would of sold even better? We'll have to see I suppose.

[max_cady]

I predict that it'll be fully funded in 'bout an hour.

[Trippled]

I agree with Andromeda, it's not 100% positive. The fan remake that someone did in their free time looks better than this, which was about equal with a Yakuza game. Then the Kickstarter and pages all look unproffesional.

And Sony could care less...we saw with them saying "it is very much their project", its all on Suzuki and Kickstarter.

[Orta]

THIS IS NOW THE GLORIOUS DAY OF SHENMUE III BEING FULLY FUNDED ON KICKSTARTER!

[Berto]

I predict that it'll be fully funded in 'bout an hour.

Yep. It's finally funded now !!!

[max_cady]

Dreams can come true.

[CrazyT]

So how much do you guys think this is gonna make in the end? Will it reach 10 million> ?

[Tad]

It'll slow down eventually, so I think around 6ish.

[jonboy101]

Well I imagine 2017 is optimistic. Someone will be funding. I don't imagine this will be done on 2 million dollars.


The model of ryo sucks, but I think the art in general looks fine, TA. Don't be such a negative nancy.

[Berto]

The sad thing is.. may be there won't be SEGA logo like in this fan box art.

[Trippled]

It'll be purely YS I'd say.

[Aki-at]

They'd be no logo on the box because... there's no physical Playstation 4 version!

Anyway wouldn't be surprised if SEGA isn't publishing the PC version.

[max_cady]

So how much do you guys think this is gonna make in the end? Will it reach 10 million> ?

My best guess, is 4 million. At best.