Bluecast wrote: Is it still the theory that Sony funded the game but used KS to test the waters of interest?
It's still the theory of YouTubers who are way too #woke to believe what The Man tells them, yes.
Bluecast wrote: Is it still the theory that Sony funded the game but used KS to test the waters of interest?
Bluecast wrote: Is it still the theory that Sony funded the game but used KS to test the waters of interest?
mjq jazz bar wrote: The reality is that Sony is paying for marketing. No one knows anything else. Cedric Biscay's company is supposedly providing financial backing, but no one knows how much. I don't imagine his company has much money, but I don't know the state of his finances, his company's finances or if he has outside investors. Then again, isn't Monaco an incredibly expensive place?
"The budget is about several million euros, funded widely by Shibuya Prod's own funds."
Let's Get Sweaty wrote:Bluecast wrote: Is it still the theory that Sony funded the game but used KS to test the waters of interest?
It's still the theory of YouTubers who are way too #woke to believe what The Man tells them, yes.
mjq jazz bar wrote: The reality is that Sony is paying for marketing. No one knows anything else. Cedric Biscay's company is supposedly providing financial backing, but no one knows how much. I don't imagine his company has much money, but I don't know the state of his finances, his company's finances or if he has outside investors. Then again, isn't Monaco an incredibly expensive place?
Suzuki Yu wrote:(from the way they say it, sounds like few million maybe 2-3 million)
Let's Get Sweaty wrote:Suzuki Yu wrote:(from the way they say it, sounds like few million maybe 2-3 million)
Could you elaborate on how you arrived at these estimates?
Suzuki Yu wrote:mjq jazz bar wrote: The reality is that Sony is paying for marketing. No one knows anything else. Cedric Biscay's company is supposedly providing financial backing, but no one knows how much. I don't imagine his company has much money, but I don't know the state of his finances, his company's finances or if he has outside investors. Then again, isn't Monaco an incredibly expensive place?
Sony's involvement is not only with Marketing but also providing technical support in addition to that there is a little help funding the development of the game itself (from the way they say it, sounds like few million maybe 2-3 million)
most of their support is for Marketing and technical support yes but they also participated a little toward game funding.
what we know until now is that Suzuki san is relying more on Kickstarter/paypal funding which is amounted so far about 6.75 million. (about 5 million of that will be used on actual development though)
Shibuya is the biggest investor here comes as a 2nd source of funding that makes me to believe the amount they invested in could be around 3-4 million. (which is also confirmed by Cedric that they invested several millions in the project)
Sony is the 2nd biggest investor (and i am here taking about game funding) i think they might helped with 2-3 million in production.
lastly it was also stated that YsNet secured additional funding maybe by itself or from other unknown parties.
from the above i could easily figure that at least the budget of the game as of now could be more than 10 million
Yokosuka wrote:Suzuki Yu wrote:mjq jazz bar wrote: The reality is that Sony is paying for marketing. No one knows anything else. Cedric Biscay's company is supposedly providing financial backing, but no one knows how much. I don't imagine his company has much money, but I don't know the state of his finances, his company's finances or if he has outside investors. Then again, isn't Monaco an incredibly expensive place?
Sony's involvement is not only with Marketing but also providing technical support in addition to that there is a little help funding the development of the game itself (from the way they say it, sounds like few million maybe 2-3 million)
most of their support is for Marketing and technical support yes but they also participated a little toward game funding.
what we know until now is that Suzuki san is relying more on Kickstarter/paypal funding which is amounted so far about 6.75 million. (about 5 million of that will be used on actual development though)
Shibuya is the biggest investor here comes as a 2nd source of funding that makes me to believe the amount they invested in could be around 3-4 million. (which is also confirmed by Cedric that they invested several millions in the project)
Sony is the 2nd biggest investor (and i am here taking about game funding) i think they might helped with 2-3 million in production.
lastly it was also stated that YsNet secured additional funding maybe by itself or from other unknown parties.
from the above i could easily figure that at least the budget of the game as of now could be more than 10 million
According a Monegasque who did his own investigation on Shibuya Prod, Shenmue III might be developed by an external studio in East of Europe, the place where salaries are still low and quality can be high (e.g. Witcher 3). With every penny smartly spent by YSnet like modern outsourcing, dreaming about a high-quality Shenmue is maybe not especially unrealistic. I refuse to believe that Suzuki accepted to engage in a project of low standard anyway.
mjq jazz bar wrote:My only concern about a delay is whether or not they have enough money to delay the project. I'm assuming they have more money than we think, so hopefully my assumption is correct.
Yokosuka wrote:
According a Monegasque who did his own investigation on Shibuya Prod, Shenmue III might be developed by an external studio in East of Europe, the place where salaries are still low and quality can be high (e.g. Witcher 3). With every penny smartly spent by YSnet like modern outsourcing, dreaming about a high-quality Shenmue is maybe not especially unrealistic. I refuse to believe that Suzuki accepted to engage in a project of low standard anyway.
shredingskin wrote:Yokosuka wrote:
According a Monegasque who did his own investigation on Shibuya Prod, Shenmue III might be developed by an external studio in East of Europe, the place where salaries are still low and quality can be high (e.g. Witcher 3). With every penny smartly spent by YSnet like modern outsourcing, dreaming about a high-quality Shenmue is maybe not especially unrealistic. I refuse to believe that Suzuki accepted to engage in a project of low standard anyway.
WOW, that would be indeed great, they have some quality programmers there at a very low cost. But I doubt they'll outsource much of the job (if any).
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