From what I've dug up there was an aspect of gauging interest with the KS on Sony's side but that wasn't the reason the KS was set in motion and shouldn't be taken to mean as much.
In other words, the KS was used to gauge interest but it wasn't created as a way to.
Suzuki was always going to go ahead with the KS whether Sony was watching it or not. Sony's support was contingent on their being a fanbase for the KS, but the KS itself was...
It's considered shady because if Sony is involved then people are questioning "well, why arent Sony paying for this? What's the point of me paying?".
Personally I think this isn't shady, but the PR/messaging of the whole thing has been really poor as well so Sony/Ys Net having exactly been doing themselves any favours?
Nah, because then we'd be accused of taking videogames too seriously... as if writing about them for a living somehow doesn't involve that...
Yes. How dare a journalist ask questions based on faulty/unproven assumptions as if they were fact! It's not like checking their facts is part of their job or something...
Don't get me wrong, both Sony and Ys Net need to sit down and break traditional business ettiquette to give us a 100% unflinching idea of what is happening here.
But journalists over the last few days have just ran into one debacle after another. It's like no one checks their f...
@Yarbie: Actually Sony is treating it like a third-party production. Which automatically rules out full-funding.
If there's partial funding involved we have no reason to believe so (yet) and some reason not to:
"In the interview, when asked about funding sources Yu Suzuki said he could not divulge all funding details but that he expects the Kickstarter campaign to provide most of the games development cost."
Source:
Yeah. Absolutely trumped it. Though that's not saying much about the quality of the games but the presentations. The Tomb Raider presentation was a really dull, heavily scripted sequence whereas Uncharted's small segment ran the gamut from firefights, punchups, driving etc;
showtimefolks: I'm working with facts here. Not speculation. Sony (or one of the other unnamed investors) may chip in with development, but we don't know to what extent or what that funding (if it existed) would be contingent on.
For all we know the contingent factor could be the Kickstarter itself. Yes Sony "may" chip in (and I sure as hell hope they do), but we don't know that for a fact and can't bank on that happening.
Also, your...
Agreed. Shenmue is more of a giant closed-world game. Basically a whole town, but with the detail of an extremely closed-world game. That's why it was impressive, unlike these modern open-world games that are just copy-and-paste missions.
Nope. You are making the same mistake/spreading misinformation that every other site there has through assumption.
By funding they don't mean development funding but marketing/production funding. I don't know how but for some reason "some funding" became "footing the bill for". That's simply not the case:
A little more from Dan Shoe (Senior Partner Alliance Manager at PlayStation):
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Or trying to plug something into the USB ports whilst you hold the machine down with one hand (to stop it slipping around). If you are right-handed you are probably going to weigh the left-side of the machine down with your left hand whilst your right does the more delicate work of getting the cable in.
This video/article has some good things to show/say about the visual fidelity and stability of the experience on the PS4. Sadly no word on how the PC version stacks up:
http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...
Partnering and funding outright are not the same thing.
In a twist role reversal you could go to You Arcade and play modern arcade games. Just to screw with people.
Always found it hilarious that Ryo owned a Sega Saturn in the 80s :P
So we know the KS money won't go to Sony. But Dan's comment was also vague, sounding like Sony would be funding Shenmue in part. Or does he mean non-development funding (publishing/marketing?).
Think I'll ask.
TBH, after the success of REmake HD and with the relatively low budgets these older-RE style games (compared to the more explosive newer REs) I think it is inevitable that Capcom either go back to this formula, or split the series into two styles.
There's just too much money lying on the ground (money that is low risk to pick up) for them to continue to ignore the classic style.
We need a reference point to really make sense of this though. How many games, for example, are refused classification by PEGI or the ESRB?
Wow. I didn't realise it back then, but these backgrounds have more character/detail/motion in them than REmake's did. Really nice.
Because Sony would be investing, you (by using Kickstarter) aren't.
Kickstarter isn't an investment platform. If you don't understand that you fundementally don't understand Kickstarter. You aren't an investor, but in this case you do get a (potential) return: the game.
If a site is involved directly or tangentially in the development of a videogame it is providing (or will provide) critical coverage of then it is an ethical issue. Yet with many sites we have the inverse happening. A sort of "anti-funding" propagated through misinformation.
We have many sites spreading misinformation regarding Shenmue III in what I can only assume is willfully misleading people. How else do you explain all the misinformation from a group of people ...
Apologies don't fix games. We need transparency on why the situation came about, and assurances on what will be done to try and ensure it won't happen again.