Megaman 3 lost it's father at the beginning of production, it was almost cancelled, but was adopted by Keiji Inafune. The franchise itself is slowly dying, as with the new generation consoles, with it's updated graphics engines, Megaman's old 2D models are falling out of favor, and doesn't resignate with the new younger audiences. The old sidecrolling 2D models worked great, but outside of that the company hasn't seen much in profit changing up the gameplay for newer systems. It's also a company that follows oldschool salaryman models whose board members aren't interested in new ideas, there interested in what makes profit. Screenshot of Megaman for the NES in 1987, whose concept and character design was done by Akira Kitamura.ĬAPCOM itself is the sole copyright owner of all things that come out of it's company, this locks developers into staying solely with them if they wish to continue on there creations. The bottom line is, the developer's have no rights to any of there works, it's the publishers who own them. for the Wii U. CAPCOM seems to of ran into the same problem with both the original developer of Megaman 20 years ago, Akira Kitamura and the current designer and developer Keiji Inafune. Beyond a doubt with so many years under it's belt it may be time that Megaman be relegated to his place in just making appearances, like he did in the more recent Super Smash Bros. This isn't the first time the Megaman franchise went without a father figure, but it may be the last. We can only hope that Keiji's brave steps and sacrifices he made for the future of gaming will turn some corporate heads at CAPCOM.
That stream of revenue not only funded the making of the game but allowed Keiji to bring it over to every gaming platform and console including the PC. Shame that CAPCOM couldn't see the power of the fan base the same as the Keiji did. By the end of the kickstarter, comcept had the backing of 67,226 backers, paying a total of $3,845,170.00 towards the project.īeck is Megaman in spirit only, he comes with his own quirkiness and personality that is unique to himself.įans paid more than 4 million dollars to make a Megaman game, or in this case, something akin to it. Within 24 hours of the kickstarter Keiji had surpassed his goal of 900k, netting over 1 million to start the process of making the game, almost entirely paid for by fans.
To many fans, what made Megaman such a mega success was the intellectual genius that helped keep him propped all these years, Keiji Inafune. With his own thoughts in mind Keiji made a kickstarter to create a spiritual successor to Megaman, calling it Mighty No. We can be rest assured that only bad things can come out of a company that refuses to listen to the fan base. That's right, there is no Megaman, because the fans have no interest in it. CAPCOM not only cancelled there last 4 Megaman games, but with there last cancellation, actually stated publicly that the fans were to be blamed for there lack of interest in the projects, while simultaneously thanking them for there participation. A company that he had put so much time and effort into, and with that the future of everyone's 'Blue Bomber' was thrown in the air. It's no secret that Keiji Inafune left CAPCOM.
With this in mind Keiji hosted a kickstarter and 'Mighty No. Lead designer and game developer Keiji Inafune has a different idea though, and with the ongoing support of fans and many of the original development team, has decided CAPCOM's retirement of the Blue Bomber was premature and left to develope his own studio in hopes to revive the story in a new franchise with a fresh face and a new look that can resignate with newer generation gamers. Megaman itself was originally a platform sidescroller game, that broke down into many different concepts, even FPS's, a Monopoly spin off game, as well as an open world RPG, not to mention the many offshoot games based on characters that have made appearances in previous games.Īccording to CAPCOM there just isn't enough interest to revive this icon anymore.
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Megaman became a franchise in 1987 and has since created over 50 different games spanning many consoles, spin off TV series, and merchandise galore. This is what's playing out for the future of everyone's favorite blue hero Megaman. While not many people can imagine what goes on in the minds of CAPCOM's corporate head, sometimes simple mis-management is the only thing that stands between the next great thing an icon has to offer and a new concept character that comes to take over.
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