To be honest - Yu has said in his reddit AMA that Sega not only gave him the licence to use but also all the assets they had made when developing one and two - so there is a good chance that they will be porting a lot of stuff in...

Shiness would be a good game to quote I think - that seems to be running on Unreal, didnt ask for a lot of money on Kickstarter and still looks to be a good looking game

Because the funding was already met by day two of the campaign. Yu Suzuki’s initial goal was two million. As in, that’s the bare minimum to kickstart the game, minus any stretch goals. There’s no way in hell a game with scope of a Shenmue title - any Shenmue title - is gonna be made on a budget of two million dollars.

Even with sonys input the budget is not gonna make massive heights - seriously why every single journalist has reported on this, wrongly without a tem of research is baffling... but lets break it down... we’ll start from kotaku, because well we are here... but it basiaclly all stems from this article...

to be honest, I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of stuff gets “leaked” in the run up to this

Here you go - knew I had read it somewhere http://shenmuedojo.net/new/extras/int… First question

I suppose he could be playing on an emu that upscales somewhat, but again its hard to tell

these misconceptions need to stop! the $47 million was for Shenmue Saturn, Shenmue 1 and Shenmue 2 as well as future assets... assets I might add that Sega are letting Yu use... thats $47 million for 3 games (1 was scrapped, so 3 games over 3 consoles over two generations) so $10 mill as well as the other funding…

It looked like the Dreamcast version to me - it was a brilliant machine

By the way... here is a tweet in regards to sony’s involvement on the project

Well this is the problem we have - there lots of people who believe the Kotakus, the Polygons etc etc when if you look deep down there is conflicting information everywhere and the Kotakus and the polygons are not really doing any new articles in regards to it when new information is brought to our attention, such as…

But the post from Insoaras is again filled with what could be nonsense, based on mis guided information, speculation and assumtion. but let us break down the post shall we...

I admit its a stretch but by no means it might be what happens - no where has it ever been confirmed that it is indeed coming to the playstation - and people are just jumping to that conclusion thanks to mis information reporting.... ie Microsoft say they didnt buy the franchise outright and the deal has a duration…

From what I understand there is actually a playable build of the Saturn Shenmue somewhere in Sega Vaults - I cant remember where I read this but if I do I’ll source

Its been starred because despite it being a link to a single comment on a message board - its more than that. It is actually a translation of an interview with Yu Suzuki taken from the most recent famitsu -

They didnt say it was timed, they said it had a duration... theres a big difference. They have not confirmed the duration is a length of time... it could be duration of 1 game. Ie i didnt buy the franchise outright the deal has a duration, for the duration of RotTR release in fact, like we did with Splinter Cell…

No they actually dont - yes I know the numbers have been off putting to many publishers, many developers for the last 15 years... but the numbers from 15 years ago have not stopped this being a kickstarter success - the demand in there not just from nostalgic fans who want the story to end but from people who are just…

You can quote all the facts and figures for a game from 1999 you want... they dont mean much in this day and age... lets break this down, the cost for Shenmue was high for the time yes... but the game broke new ground, had an engine developed from scratch, had mounds of r and d done but most importantly was the ost of…

Clearly, but I dont think you ever go into Kickstarter asking for everything you need - $2 Mil is just bare basic what he either needed to top up what ever funds he has... or what he needed to prove to Sony what demand was - Anybody who thought there was gonna be a straight up game from $2mil alone is well wrong

I can just imagine someone there shaking there head “no no no. ths isnt right! we have been telling them for years they want! they have never wanted Shenmue just more Sonic - its just a blip dave, put Shinig Force IV back into storage!!”