Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
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Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#2$100k per language subtitules? Really?
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#3why is a billion dollar company using kickstarter?
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#4I never played any of the Shenmue games. I know a couple people that are big fans, though, so I'm happy for them.
As a devops guy, I was more entertained by the effect of Shenmue 3's announcement on the Kickstarter servers. Props to them for the quick recovery!
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#5What excited me most in that article is the line "The press event also saw Sony announce that long-awaited game The Last Guardian would soon be released."
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#6why is a billion dollar company using kickstarter?
It makes sense as a way to gauge interest, similar to pre-orders.
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#7why is a billion dollar company using kickstarter?
Because the BBC apparently stopped fact checking. It's a separate studio, not a part of Sony.
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#8$100k per language subtitules? Really?
It my be abusive but there is a lot of side things in the shenmue game so ...
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#9$100k per language subtitules? Really?
Seems like a lot, but if you consider cost of translation, studio time, voice actors, etc, I can see it being 100k, especially if you want to pay the translators and actors fairly.
Re: Sony reaches $2m Shenmue III game target on Kickstarter within hours
#10$100k per language subtitules? Really?
1. stretch goals are just sales goals, there's no reason they have to correspond to actual costs.
2. that's gross, not net. Subtract 5% for kickstarter, 3% for the credit cards, royalties for game shipments and reward costs, and you're probably looking at less than $50K
3. good professional translation costs ~$30K per man-month if you use an agency. I wouldn't be surprised if Shenmue contains more than a novel's worth of text.