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One thing Shenmue 3 has going for it that 1 and 2 didn’t is digital sales. They can always run a promotion and sell the game at a lower price point and boost the sales.
Stay mad. I'm just relaying Romain's word about it. YsNet saw no money from that deal. And that cash wasn't used toward the developpement either.
Famitsu Sales: 11/18/19 – 11/24/19 [Update]
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software and hardware sales data for Japan for the week of November 18, 2019 to November 24, 2019.gematsu.com
17,857 copies in Japan....
I think he just thought it looked good that it debuted in fourth place.It looks bad but Cedric retweeted this information so maybe this is better than what they were aiming for?
I hope.
Shenmue 3 sold fine in the UK. The game is keeping pace with Football Manager. Besides, those UK charts are next to worthless these days since they don't account for digital sales.It didn’t sell well in the UK either.
How exactly are sales numbers not the biggest influence in proving shenmue has a viable future?The number really doesn’t matter all that matters is if they see shenmue having a viable future it either will or it won’t and that’s all there is to it no point worrying.
Because you need to start thinking more long-term. Shenmue was always going to be a slow-burn performer after launch. Steady sales over the weeks and months ahead are what will win the day. Not all this nonsense seeing portents of ruin in a couple of largely irrelevant week 1 charts.How exactly are sales numbers not the biggest influence in proving shenmue has a viable future?
Because you need to start thinking more long-term. Shenmue was always going to be a slow-burn performer after launch. Steady sales over the weeks and months ahead are what will win the day. Not all this nonsense seeing portents of ruin in a couple of largely irrelevant week 1 charts.
I agree. We have to remember the original goal for Kickstarter was 2 million. Deep Silver, YSNet, Sega, nobody saw Shenmue 3 raising 7 million dollars. That changed everything enabling us to have a full Shenmue experience. This is why I'm 100% confident Shenmue 4 will happen.
Develop Shenmue 4 without Kickstarter and use 7 million dollars as the baseline budget. This shouldn't be a problem since the system and assets are already in place. The really big problem would be if Shenmue 4 was a flop.
I think he literally means the original Kickstarter base goal, not their expectations. Obviously their expectations were higher considering they made that the cutoff amount for whether or not the project gets funded into existence at all. As far as expectations beyond that, though, I remember Cedric saying that he thought they could've raised at least another $1 million had those stories saying Sony was funding the game not come out so early in the campaign. That expectation was realistically set after they saw the E3 reaction and early donations. I don't know if he could've realistically foreseen the $7 million before they even launched the KS at all.nah, cedric biscay told me they were expecting more than 2 million with the kickstarter, I can assure you
Yep, if it just barely made the $2 million cut-off iirc. Which is kind of misleading as the project was always slated for PS4 and PC going off the KS, so I assume he meant it would've been comparable to a mobile game in terms of scale and production values.Didnt suzuki imply that shenmue 3 would of been a phone game had it not made more on the kickstarter
They used to, but stopped very recently I think a few months ago.Interestingly, Media Create’s top ten has Shenmue 3 at number six rather than number four. This is partly down to Pokemon taking up two entries, but they also place Shenmue behind Death Stranding.
I really wish they published their actual sales figures rather than just positions.
Yeah so? Ys Net still got the money from Deep Silver for all the stuff i mentioned above.
How is this worth nothing just because Deep Silver brought back some of it with the help of Epic?
Do you think Deep Silver and Epic are giving away money for free because of sympathy?
YS Net and Shenmue 3 still benefited from Deep Silver. Where DS got their money from is their deal, not YS Net's.
I think its very funny that there is still this bubble in peoples heads where Shenmue 3
somehow is the same game as it is now but without Deep Silver or Epic and it would be a huge success.
This scenario never existed.
If YS Net would have said no to Deep Silver, then who would have paid for the delays, extra content, CE's etc?
Sony, Shibuya Productions, Sega? Yeah sure, super realistic.
You can choose between the product we have now with Deep Silver on board
or the game released in 2017 with the first look graphics and without ANY of the improvements from Deep Silver.
Those are the two realistic scenarios, thats it.
If you think the second scenario is the better one, please explain how that game would have received better reviews,
sales numbers and Metascore. Not even the Shenmue fans here were impressed by that early material.