The crowdfunding marketing campaign for Shenmue Three has closed with over $7.1 million in funds.
Since its preliminary announcement at E3 2015, and after a profitable Kickstarter campaign that raised over $6 million, Ys Net has revealed the ultimate numbers of its crowdfunding efforts – together with a marketing campaign by itself platform – with a grand whole of $7,179,510 raised by 81,087 backers,
Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter marketing campaign broke the document for fastest video game to raise $1 million in contributions on a crowdfunding platform when it smashed its $2 million target in just one day.
After a delay that noticed the title get pushed again to the second half of 2018, and another to 2019, Deep Silver introduced an August 2019 release for the game.
You can learn Alex’s review of the first two games in the series here.
Shenmue Three launches for PC and PS4 on August 27, 2019.
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