Another article where Yu speaks the stretch goals and goes more indepth into what we can expect:
Taking about the game world, Suzuki said that he has no plans to expand the world in Shenmue 3 to cater for even more characters.
“Everyone must be thinking that we’ll expand the open world more, but I’ve been deeply questioning whether or not to do that instead,” he said. “If we were to have 100 characters and split the budget among them, we’d be limited in terms of what we could do with each one; however, if we were to split that budget among just 10 characters, we could do a lot more with them.”
He goes on to say that the scope of Shenmue 3 and the ambition to add more fetures is only restricted by the size of the Kickstarter campaign.
“A stretch goal on Kickstarter will determine the expansion of the city,” he told the website.
This is only a bit of the interview, here is the rest:
http://www.psu.com/news/27230/Shenmue-3-game-world-to-expand-with-further-Kickstarter-stretch-goals;-QTEs-will-be-%E2%80%98elaborate%E2%80%99?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterBasically, the rumour at the moment is that each location is 4 million, so in order to get everything that Yu wants in the game, we need to get this bad boy to 12 million! We need to do something about this. So many people are sitting on there $29 pledges because there is no PS4 physical version but IMO they need to bite the bullet and put their month where their mouths are. We waited 14 years, don't let the fact that you won't get a physical PS4 copy ruin and potentially "remove/dull down" the experience that we have all wanted for so long!