Capcom abandoned MegaMan for this.

[Leaf]

If Capcom cant spend enough money and time making Monster Hunter Wilds the best game it can be, what hopes do I even have for them reviving MegaMan, especially in a worthy way? Not the MegaMan 11 "low budget experiment" kind of way, but an actual full blown game.

I was hoping for MegaMan Legends 3 to return, hopefully for Switch 2 as the lowest spec, but that console will actually be capable of so much, I don't think Capcom has it in them anymore if they can't even finish a Monster Hunter game, a series which they loooooove so much and depend on fully for money.

[Rhapsodical]

Originally posted by Leaf:

Originally posted by Ottomic:

Go here: https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Now scroll up and click on 11-30.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Now scroll up and click on 31-50.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Past Okami, past Dead Rising 2, Past Dino Crisis, Lost Planet, Phoenix Wright, Dragon's Dogma, Onimusha, past Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition, past Resident Evil Revelations 2.

Now scroll up and click on 51-70.

You'll find Megaman 11 on #65.

Now ask yourself this:
How much money did Capcom put into MegaMan 11's development / marketing?
And how much money did they put into Monster Hunter Wilds development / marketing?

Now ask yourself what these sales figures would look like if you were to invert the budget so that Monster Hunter Wilds could only be made with MegaMan 11's budget, and MegaMan 11 had been made with the amount of money they put into MH Wilds?

"Monster Hunter Wilds has sold over 10 million units in its first month of release, setting a first-month sales record for Capcom " https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e250331.html

I'm sorrry but MegaMan isn't gonna make investors happy. Neither are the other niche games. Monster Hunter has become Mainstream along with Resident Evil. Those are the cash cows who deserve the attention. The rest will get a bone thrown their way here or there. Investors want money and making peanuts doesn't make them want to invest more.

[Gaidax]

Based on what do you make this claim?

[Leaf]

Originally posted by Rhapsodical:

I'm sorrry but MegaMan isn't gonna make investors happy.

Have you seen the first Monster Hunter?
For a 2004 game, that was MASSIVE.
It probably had a much bigger team and budget than any MegaMan game ever to this day, yet at the time that was just an experiment for them. It was not the cash cow you know it for because it did not exist prior. I don't think there were a lot of investors being happy about this unknown game back then.

[Leaf]

Originally posted by Gaidax:

Based on what do you make this claim?

Based on the fact that Capcom hasn't made a MegaMan game since 2018 but has made like 7 Monster Hunter games since.

In 2019, they said that the next MegaMan game had already been decided on, and then there were some leaks revealing MegaMan Taisen, so something was definitely in the works, and then abandoned as we never heard of it again.

[Retsubty]

Megaman is the type of game you make for Nintendo Switch 2. That's where the audience is. Not for the PC only elitists.

They'd have to kinda reinvent it as a soulslike Megaman sidescroller.
(I mean... Shovel Knight shows you that these games can be successful)

or bring back Megaman Legends and make it actually good.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

m8 megaman is hard as bolls

i rmb playing megaman zero 2 and i got my butt whooped

[Gaidax]

Originally posted by Leaf:

Originally posted by Gaidax:

Based on what do you make this claim?

Based on the fact that Capcom hasn't made a MegaMan game since 2018 but has made like 7 Monster Hunter games since.

In 2019, they said that the next MegaMan game had already been decided on, and then there were some leaks revealing MegaMan Taisen, so something was definitely in the works, and then abandoned as we never heard of it again.

And why does that have to do anything with Monster Hunter?

By your logic - it means that they should have had no effort to spare to anything, yet in the given timeframe they have shipped quite a few games.

MegaMan is somehow special that makes its existence incompatible with Monster Hunter? Is it truly so unbelievable to make an assumption that whatever MegaMan game they developed was dropped because it simply was not good enough?

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Yeah, lets talk about mega man 11 which whooping total of ... 30k copies at launch week and still to this date only sold 2 million copies.

[Retsubty]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Yeah, lets talk about mega man 11 which whooping total of ... 30k copies at launch week and still to this date only sold 2 million copies.

I left for 20 days and you are still here. What in the...

Also anyone that doesn't like Megaman can't be trusted.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Retsubty:

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Yeah, lets talk about mega man 11 which whooping total of ... 30k copies at launch week and still to this date only sold 2 million copies.

I left for 20 days and you are still here. What in the...

See hte mouse icon infront of my name? See your name? Yeah thatws why.

Also I dont need to like mega man. I like real games like Contra.

[Leaf]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Yeah, lets talk about mega man 11 which whooping total of ... 30k copies at launch week and still to this date only sold 2 million copies.

Yes, MegaMan 11, a game that was made with dozens of dollars for both the development and marketing combined :)
It is a miracle it sold 1 million, let alone 2.

[Retsubty]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Originally posted by Retsubty:

I left for 20 days and you are still here. What in the...

See hte mouse icon infront of my name? See your name? Yeah thatws why.

Also I dont need to like mega man. I like real games like Contra.

More like 24/7 on this forum.

You already forgot that I own the game on PS5. Short memory?

[Aleera]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

It is called Rockman

It's called Megaman outside of Japan.

And as someone who her first console game ever was Megaman 2, it saddens me that Capcom ignores our jump and shoot man.

The last time he ever got any real attention, was when he was added to Smash.

[Leaf]

Originally posted by Gaidax:

And why does that have to do anything with Monster Hunter?

Seems to have everything to do when the company that's supposed to make MegaMan is no longer making MegaMan but their main thing is now Monster Hunter... What's so hard to understand? I mean of course I get that MH makes more money, but at this point this is just irresponsible. Are we never going to see MegaMan games again if MH just keeps making millions of sales? Can't we have a transfer of IP's to another company since they don't care anymore?

Originally posted by Aleera:

The last time he ever got any real attention, was when he was added to Smash.

I swear, I thought MegaMan was "back". I bought Smash 4 3DS on day 1, and then on WiiU again day 1. I was thrilled by how great this version of MegaMan was, it's everything I saw him as on the NES. I never saw other cameos feel this real.
Today it would hurt me if I play Smash knowing that this was the extent of it, instead of an epic rebirth that would lead to awesome games.

[Ravness01]

Originally posted by Leaf:

Originally posted by Gaidax:

Based on what do you make this claim?

Based on the fact that Capcom hasn't made a MegaMan game since 2018 but has made like 7 Monster Hunter games since.

In 2019, they said that the next MegaMan game had already been decided on, and then there were some leaks revealing MegaMan Taisen, so something was definitely in the works, and then abandoned as we never heard of it again.

Eh...they made X dive offline...it wasn't very good though. To be fair neither was X7 which was really the death knell of the franchise, not RE or MH.

Not saying that to be snarky either, very first game I ever beat as a child was MM2,. I've gone on to beat most everything in the franchise at some point or another in my life, but I gave up on MM ever making a return to form years ago same as I did with konami and the castlevania franchise. It's just one of the "joys" of growing older + capitalism, everything from your childhood will get sold out or ruined as the years go by.