Would have though Jim would have sat on this topic for an extra week.
Weird episode, I agree with his core reasoning behind the iffy side of Kickstarter should major publishers turn to it in order to revive dead franchises, Breath of Fire 6... I mean 7, FUCK YEAH *ahem*, the reason why I don't think a publisher going to kickstarter will work for them is because they need a face, the reason Yooka Laylee worked was because it was the original team that made Banjo Kazooie, Iga fronting Bloodstained and Keiji Inafune appealing to fans to help him make the Megaman game that Capcom sure as hell doesn't want to make, Shenmue isn't the example to draw this point from a potential iffy side though.
Jim fell into the same trap I fell into the day after, I was lead to believe that Sony was funding the rest while Kickstarter was used to gauge interest, that simply is not true, I think alot of people would have been okay with it if that was the situation, because the game now exists and that's what matters, everything Sony said on the E3 stage was as transparent as they could, it is Yu Suzuki's project and Sony's hands off for the most part, the only involvement is pretty much PS4 advertising and ensuring a solid port to take the burden of the dev team like they do with many indies with their pub fund.
It's weird because I think this whole "backlash(?)" is by mere association, Sony gave Yu Suzuki the biggest stage that even mainstream press covers, with an announcement hot off the FFVIIR announcement and the Kickstarter broke all sorts of records in record time, and as it turns out that ended up being a somewhat double edged sword.
Edit: Ah looks like he's going to address what i typed lol.