That's good news, they are getting additional funding besides Kickstarter. I just wish we knew what that $10 million figure referred to, the Kickstarter or funding in general.

I think this is the situation. Yu says he needs $10 million to make an open world game. I just can't see $10 million being enough for a fully open world game. The Witcher 3 was made on $15 million and that is about 50 times bigger than Shenmue 1 and 2 combined with a similar amount of detail. Obvio...

$500 Would happily up to $1000-$1500 if they gave me the option! You can up to any amount you want by going to the "Manage" option from the S3 KS main page. You still keep the reward you chose, you are just adding extra money on top. Hope that helps, unless you are actually waiting it out...

The reason that it's so ambiguous is that they are waiting to see how much the haul in via kickstarted before finalizing the budget. Sony - and any other backer - will want to see how much Yu is getting from us before throwing any numbers out there. Makes sense to me - I understand the ambiguity is...

The Kickstarter made around $60,000 yesterday (that's what somebody told me, I'm not sure if that's accurate). If that's an average day then it'll make another $1.5 million, meaning it'll finish around $5 million dollars. Kickstarters tend to serge at the end so it'll probably do a bit more than tha...

It's just my opinion, but I honestly honestly believe that whatever the Kickstarter makes, Sony will double it. Even if they don't, I have full confidence that other funding will come from investors. Maybe that "it needs $10 million" quote is already taking other funding into account? I j...

$500

Would happily up to $1000-$1500 if they gave me the option!

. If Suzuki's Kickstarter is successful [and very quickly after our conversation it was], SCEA will add funding and other support."

This sort of adds credence to the "the Kicksarter is to gage interest" theory, doesn't it? The question is how much funding.

Most game "journalists" think Kickstarter should be used only by their horrible indie friends for their horrible indie games.

Thankfully nobody reads anything by game journalists any more.

I'm honestly not sure how much getting the word out will help. Every Shenmue fan already knows about it, what we need to be doing is somehow raising more money ourselves. Luckily I came into a bit of money recently so I can support it, but some people are going to have to work extra shifts or sell t...

I'm currently pledging $500 but I'd bump it up to $1000 if I had the option, I think a lot of people who have pledged $500 would too. They really need more reward tiers.

YS: No, development will be carried out with Ys Net own funding together with Kickstarter. I won’t know the scale of the budget until the Kickstarter campaign has finished, so I can’t comment on it right now. That's somewhat reassuring, but is the $10 million figure Suzuki mentioned on Reddit cover...