Is 250,000 supposed to be impressive? Because I'm pretty sure every publisher known to man would be jumping out the window with those kinds of number.
My point was those sales are not guaranteed, especially for a game like Shenmue III for the reasons I highlight above in regards to a continuation of story of a 10-15 year old game.
I never said it was impressive.
I said your
worst example still did 3 times the number of backers -- in one platform. Another one did many times the number of backers (approximately 40x more), and we could have used just the same logic: That Shovel Knight was "limited" in its audience by the 8-bit retro look.
Of course it's not guaranteed. No sales are guaranteed, when funding any game. Hell, in this case, 50,000 or so are so far, which is more than any publisher can say when locking down funding for a game 2 and half years in the future. My point is simply that your reasoning doesn't hold water based on the evidence we have, while your post said this shows that publishers were right, and there isn't an audience.
This Kickstarter shows nothing of the sort. If anything, it alludes to the opposite.
