

Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. Accompanied by a comment from designer Yu Suzuki, the statement gave only. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. In a statement by the game's publisher, it was announced that the release date for Shenmue 3 would be delayed until 2019. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here.
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In a video message to Kickstarter Backers, series director Yu Suzuki stated that while development of the game is going just fine, new technologies have allowed the team to discover new possibilities and expressions. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Shenmue III will miss its initial release date and is now slated for sometime in the second half of 2018.

They were then reworked later that year, but still displayed a stiffness we don’t expect to see from something on current-generation systems. A teaser trailer released back in 2017 was criticized for the bizarrely blank facial expressions of its characters. The decision to delay Shenmue III will hopefully result in the game better utilizing the power of the PlayStation 4 and PC. Shadow of the Tomb Raider cost between $75 million and $100 million to develop, according to Eidos Montreal head David Anfossi. The $6 million is likely a drop in the bucket when you consider the cost of modern AAA games.

More than $6 million was raised on the platform, far above the $2 million goal, in addition to the funding provided by Deep Silver. The estimated delivery window for Shenmue III is still listed as “December 2017” on the Kickstarter page - as the game was announced alongside the crowdfunding campaign, it was revealed to the public much earlier than game traditionally is. “We promise to use this time to improve the quality of Shenmue III.” “After much discussion with our partners, Deep Silver, we have concluded that extending the release will allow us to deliver Shenmue III at its best,” Suzuki said. “The extra time will be used to polish the quality of the game even further, to the high standards it deserves, and release the product in the best possible timeframe,” Deep Silver said in a post on its website.ĭirector Yu Suzuki released his own statement on the game’s Kickstarter page, as well, expressing his apologies to those who backed the game. It appeared that the game would finally make it into the wild in 2018, but publisher Deep Silver has decided to push it into next year. Fitbit Versa 3Ī crowdfunding campaign for the long-awaited Shenmue IIIwas announced nearly three years ago at E3 2015, and since then, we’ve seen numerous developer updates and release date shifts.
