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DENMU and Solutions 2 GO join as partners for fundraising and overseas expansion, and Unending Dawn, a Phase 3 title, receives the same investment.","whyItMatters":"The program's support now includes money on top of development and marketing help, which gives selected Chinese teams funding that SIE Shanghai says should raise the trust investors and publishers place in them.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe Phase 4 lineup itself was not named at the presentation, and applications are still open. What SIE Shanghai did announce is how those titles will be backed: the same $1 million-equivalent investment per project that it is also putting into Unending Dawn, a Phase 3 title, to support its development.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBao Bo framed the money as a way to deepen ties between PlayStation and the selected teams, so they can draw on SIE\u0026#39;s internal support departments. The two new partners, DENMU and Solutions 2 GO, cover fields outside production, which Bao\u0026#39;s side said has become necessary as the selected teams\u0026#39; development skills have risen.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"SIE Shanghai is putting $1 million into each Phase 4 title, but Unending Dawn, a Phase 3 game, gets the same amount. Phase 3 support did not close when Phase 4 opened.","twitterPost":"Unending Dawn is a Phase 3 game. It still receives the same $1 million SIE Shanghai is putting into every Phase 4 title.","threadsPost":"SIE Shanghai announced $1 million for each Phase 4 title, and also gave the same $1 million to Unending Dawn, a Phase 3 title. That overlap suggests China Hero Project support is not a fixed cohort that closes when the next phase begins.","newsletterBlurb":"SIE Shanghai announced at a November 3 presentation in Shanghai that each China Hero Project Phase 4 title will receive an investment equivalent to $1 million, directed mainly at development costs. Phase 3's Unending Dawn gets the same backing. 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