Shenmue 3 Funding Reaches Over $3 Million, Sony Will Back It Too

<p>Ever since Shenmue 3&&num;8217&semi;s unveil at PlayStation&&num;8217&semi;s E3 Conference&comma; the game has received over &dollar;3 million in crowdfunding on KickStarter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The funding the game has received so far with &dollar;3&comma;039&comma;363 &lpar;at the time of writing&rpar; has enabled stretch goals to be hit&period; This includes&colon; <em>Shenmue 1<&sol;em> and 2 Cinema Shorts&comma; Dutch subtitles&comma; French subtitles&comma; Spanish subtitles&comma; and Italian subtitles&period; The next stretch goals are a rapport system &lpar;&dollar;3&period;2 million&rpar;&comma; a skill tree system &lpar;&dollar;3&period;5 million&rpar;&comma; and both the expansion of Baisha Village and 5 mini games &lpar;&dollar;4 million&rpar;&period; The initial funding goal is &dollar;2 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sony&&num;8217&semi;s director of third party publishing Gio Corsi <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ca&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;17&sol;e3-2015-sony-is-funding-shenmue-3-development" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">spoke to IGN<&sol;a> yesterday about helping to back <em>Shenmue III<&sol;em>&period; He said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We set a goal for &dollar;2 million dollars and if the fans come in and back it&comma; then absolutely we are going to make this a reality&period;&&num;8221&semi; He also said that they were going to help YS Net finish the game through their third party production program&period; In what capacity that they are helping and backing the game is not known&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Shenmue 3<&sol;em> will have similarities with previous entries&comma; but will have new fighting mechanics so they can &&num;8220&semi;achieve a new level of interactive storytelling&period;&&num;8221&semi; The game is also being developed with Unreal Engine 4&period; The story will continue Ryo&&num;8217&semi;s story as he and Shenhua go deeper into enemy territory so he can find his father&&num;8217&semi;s killer&period; You can check out the initial news story <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;e3-2015-yu-suzuki-needs-your-help-to-make-shenmue-iii-happen&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">here&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Shenmue 3<&sol;em> is being planned for a PS4 and PC release&period; The estimated release date is December 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ca&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2015&sol;06&sol;17&sol;e3-2015-sony-is-funding-shenmue-3-development" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">IGN<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;ysnet&sol;shenmue-3" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Shenmue 3 Kickstarter<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;