With Mega Man Legends 3 canceled and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 lacking the blue bomber, it's been assumed by most that the franchise is officially dead. Capcom, however, has attempted to give hope to the masses, assuring fans that the series is still important and not finished yet.
"The frustrating thing for me is I have nothing I can hold up and say, 'Oh, here’s this other Mega Man thing.' Absolutely, we have other things ... Mega Man is a very important brand to Capcom," said Capcom’s Christian Svensson. "We get questions [like] 'Are you guys trying to kill the brand?' No, absolutely not. It will continue to be a very important brand for us. I wish I had something I could hold and display for you that that’s the case, but I don’t right now. But super, super important to us; I do want to express that.”
Svensson addressed the cancelation of Legends 3, saying that it was a hard, but necessary, decision: "Certainly, we knew there would be a lot of upset people and in spite of that, we still had to make that decision. That doesn’t mean we don’t care about you at all. I unfortunately can’t get into the details of it, but it was not a decision that was made lightly and I can tell you that no one is happy about that decision, but it was a decision that had to be made."
This likely won't appease those fans who believe Capcom canceled the game because it "hates the fans," but there ya go!
Mega Man Is Still A “Very Important” Brand To Capcom [Siliconera, header by MrNorth]
Contest:
10:45 AM on 08.10.2011 | 
/sarcasm.
Seriously, fans are retarded. They're not killing the brand.
Fans: Why cancel MML3?
Capcom: Cuz we had to.
"Fans": YOU'RE KILLING MEGAMAN, YOU MONSTERS!!!
Capcom: No, we're not, I swear it!
Fans: So what's the future for Megaman?
Capcom: Ummmmm...
I'm personally still a bit hurt over MML3's cancellation, it's an unforgivable act. The only "support" they've given to the series recently are Mega Man 9, Mega Man 10, and the Starforce games. No one likes Mega Man Starforce and I could care less about the original Mega Man honestly. Give me Legends or give me death Capcom. Or a new, original Mega Man that doesn't look like it was made 10 years ago, that would be good too.
They don't care, they make too much money off everything else to care.
They don't care, they make too much money off everything else to care.
Looking over at Starforce, it's difficult to say. We can only hope.
Original Series: Nothing announced. MM10 released in 2010.
X/Zero/ZX Series: Nothing announced. ZX Advent released in October 2007.
Battle Network/Star Force Series: Nothing announced. Star Force 3 released in June 2009.
Legends Series: Officially cancelled. Legends 2 released in 2000.
Appearance of characters in other media: Plenty.
Yep, the series is dead. You can bring it back, but the brand as a game series is dead right now. Megaman 9 and 10 were life support, but the last time we had a title which built on the gameplay advances started in the X/Zero/ZX series was in 2007.
And even then It has been marked down from a preorder to a possibly buy within 6months but no fewer than 3months after its launch out of principal.
Which is really what this is about.
THIS.
Especially since Capcom said that they'd release the Megaman Legends 3 demo and that the decision to go ahead with it would be based on sales, then took the ability for customers to even TRY to show they'd support the full title away.
Wait...a new game not coming out in seventeen months constitutes a dead franchise? Aren't we the same gamers that complain about yearly releases in a series that do little to differentiate itself from the last title? I mean, maybe I'm misunderstanding you here, but that just seems a little off.
Yeah, some people do complain about yearly releases (not me so much), but when you have a big franchise with multiple games lines and nothing is released for 17 months, nor is there anything to show for the forseeable future it raises some flags. Just imagine if there were no new pokemon games nor announcements for that long. What would people think?
God...tetsuya....used to love the guy.
Now i loath him. So. Much.
Nothing released for 17 months in the last line, with periods of over two years, nearly four years, and over a decade for the others. And the most important thing, of course, is that there's nothing announced, either.
Unless Capcom is, for some reason, hiding the good news that a game is on the way, we're looking at at least another year (if not two) before we see anything. And next year is the 25th anniversary of the series.
Right now the only thing they could do is release more retro games in the main series (11, 12, etc) and they'd probably hit the same sort of quality we saw in 5 and 6 if that happened. The X/Zero/ZX series has been dead for a little while, and Star Force has concluded. And obviously Legends is cancelled.
Either Capcom hates money or they have no idea what to do with the guy.
/sarcasm.
Seriously, fans are retarded. They're not killing the brand.
Anyway, I am interested on how they can revision the MM franchise. I would like another MM Zero, because I personally think the Zero series is the best series, second to MM. Classic.
Lol think what ever you want , 2 big megaman title cancel , inafune out of the compagny and mm out of umvsc3. Indeed they are killing it.
Do you think selling merchandise and re port old games will keep it alive ???
Works for Final Fight :L
Call it Megaman Omega.
All will be forgiven.
A brand new, 16-bit, downloadable MEGA MAN X title, ala MM9&10.
Keiji Inafune not being at Capcom might affect this greatly.