It's the usual reason: they want more time to finish and make it better. Previously due on August 27th, the open-world brawl-o-RPG is now expected on November 19th. A good estimate of how much it costs to make a game is $100,000 per employee per year, so a delay of one year means they are spending something like $1 million extra per 10 employees. The will-mue, won't-mue of Shenmue will continue for a while longer, as Shenmue III is delayed once again. By delaying the game, they are increasing the development budget being spent. BTW, it’s the time that reflects the budget - if the game has 4 years of development, then it’s by definition not a “lower budget game”, because most of the budget is in paying the developer salaries (unless it’s a tiny development team). Vote with your wallet.Ĭlick to shrink.I’ve worked on mobile side scrollers (two of them) with 4-year development cycles, that’s not a big deal of development time for a game. So I expect they deliver that.īut to contradict myself a bit here, in case you want to pre-order a copy and support the project the funding campaign is still going on. The situation is not much different than Mighty Number 9 hah, whereas in this case the only repercussion has been fans asking for better quality and quantity, provided the vast increase of funds and time. Now Shenmue 3 is not a low-budget time-constrained game, so the game must be better than that.Īfter all the vast majority of developers would be heavily criticized in their situation, for the product taking twice as long as announced, especially when taking into account the sneak peek videos and trailer shown being quite underwhelming (sorry but they are). But now after two delays (now with more dev time than the infamous Shenmue 1 cycle), having reached 4x the initial funding goal going only towards development (and likely having secured more funds on the side otherwise the delays wouldn't be possible), as well as now having a publisher (secured marketing and can focus on making the game), then as a 2015 backer I expect Shenmue 3 to be better and larger than what was originally announced.
Point being, the game was supposed to be small and short in nature, as you can see in the KS campaign. What difference will another 12 months or so make? Especially if it produces another game worthy of the Shenmue name.If the game is taking twice longer to make than originally announced (2017 release date announced in mid 2015), then expectations of quality and quantity are going to be higher. They have, after all, waited 16 years to see the next chapter in Hazuki’s story. Today’s delay will be agonizing but, I suspect, acceptable to diehard Shenmue fans. The project blew up, raising $6.3 million from almost 70,000 backers. But in 2015, Yu Suzuki announced a Kickstarter for Shenmue 3 during Sony’s E3 press conference. Shenmue 3 Delayed to Late 2018 Updated March 8th, 2018, by Jose Belmonte Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki has shared a video message in which he announces that the fans will have to wait a little longer for Shenmue 3, as the game release is being delayed until the second half of 2018. The extra time will be used to polish the. In the years that followed, many assumed the franchise was dead, another victim of Sega’s exit from the console business. Deep Silver today announces that their upcoming release Shenmue III has been moved and will now release in 2019. The large, open worlds and ambitious simulation aspects - both games had a day-and-night cycle, for instance - won the pair plenty of praise in 19 respectively. Deep Silver and Shenmue 3 mastermind Yu Suzuki have announced that the game has been delayed yet again, this time with its release date being pushed back to November. They follow teenager and martial arts student Ryo Hazuki as he tries to track down his father’s murderer. Shenmue and Shenmue II are considered cult classics from the Sega Dreamcast era. We do, however, need more time to deliver the game to you.” “In many ways, the game has become bigger and more beautiful than I initially expected. “By utilizing new technologies, we have been able to discover new possibilities and expressions,” he said.
#SHENMUE 3 DELAYED SERIES#
In a video, series creator Yu Suzuki broke the news that the title will now be released in the second half of 2018. Shenmue 3 was supposed to ship this December, however that always seemed unlikely given how little we’ve seen of the game through screenshots and gameplay snippets.
#SHENMUE 3 DELAYED UPDATE#
The third part of the Shenmue saga has been delayed, developer Ys Net revealed in a Kickstarter update today.
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