The Daily Populous Tuesday July 23rd, 2024 evening edition
Authored by videogameschronicle.com and submitted by Prudent-Character431

Capcom has claimed that it’s looking into creating new Mega Man games more regularly.

Speaking during the question and answer portion of its 45th ordinary general shareholders meeting, when asked about plans for the franchise, Capcom responded:

“Mega Man is one of our highly-valued IPs and we are considering how to create games for it on an ongoing basis.”

Capcom recently shared a survey asking which classic Capcom franchise fans would like new entries in. Capcom regularly releases these surveys, which ask about dormant series like Dino Crisis.

While a number of retro compilations of older Mega Man titles have been released in recent years, entirely new entries in the series are few and far between.

The releases of Mega Man 9 in 2008, Mega Man 10 in 2010, and Mega Man 11 in 2018 have marked the only major Mega Man games in the past 15 years.

According to Capcom’s own internal data, the Mega Man series has sold more than 38 million units over its 36-year history.

Nintendo recently added all five Game Boy Mega Man games to the Nintendo Switch Online service.

The five games, known as Rockman World 1-5 in Japan, are not straight ports of the NES games but have some similarities, with most of them featuring bosses from the console games.

All five games, with the exception of Mega Man II, were outsourced by Capcom to another studio called Minakuchi Engineering, and were received positively by critics.

For Mega Man II, the game was outsourced to another developer called Japan System House. Mega Man co-designer Keiji Inafune said this was the Game Boy Mega Man game he liked the least, claiming the studio wasn’t familiar with the series, and as such Capcom returned to Minakuchi Engineering for the third game.

insanelylazy on July 23rd, 2024 at 14:41 UTC »

The cynical side of me believes this is just coded speak for "We need to find a revenue stream by way of microtransactions"

Personally, I'd love to see a Mario maker style of Mega Man X. Give the keys to the community to design some truly amazing and devious levels. I think the audience would be somewhat willing to pay for expansions building on that foundation.

happilystoned42069 on July 23rd, 2024 at 12:14 UTC »

Hopefully, we can get a new X entry. Feel like its been ages.

Cley_Faye on July 23rd, 2024 at 10:53 UTC »

Hey, a good game every few years is all we ask.