There was probably a reason this was cancelled and I doubt Cacpom is stupid. Especially when it comes to money.
You haven't been paying any attention to video games in the last 5 years, have you?
There was probably a reason this was cancelled and I doubt Cacpom is stupid. Especially when it comes to money.
Which platforms are we talking about here, though?
Donate? Are they making the game?
Oh wow
This is desperate as fuck
Wow, the Facebook page is getting around 25 Likes per minute.
The game was developed in Capcom's MT Framework which supports Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PC, 3DS and PS Vita. For this reason I assume it would have been easier to port than many other titles.
Had the game been released about now I think it would have been perfect for 3DS, Vita and Wii.
A year or two later they could probably have released it as a digital title for the other platforms.
It's paying for advertising. It's not like a kickstarter or anything.
Saying it's desperate is pretty nonsensical. People can throw money in to help raise awareness, so what...? Desperation would be believing that the 20k song sales would result in the prototype being released. Using money to aid in methods of raising awareness beyond just word of mouth is just pragmatic, and hardly desperation.
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Releasing a game for 3 platforms wouldn't make the game 3 times as expensive to make.So instead of losing money on one title...you would have them lose MORE money by releasing the game on multiple platforms.
Releasing a game for 3 platforms wouldn't make the game 3 times as expensive to make.
No but it would increase Dev costs and for a game they already don't believe will make a return enough to be worth while and middle of the road at best sales of the previous entries then taking the time and money to port it would be nothing but a negative.
"Worst day in gaming history."
I'm not knocking it but it just seems strange to be advertising for Facebook likes.It's paying for advertising. It's not like a kickstarter or anything.
If all the internal politics are to be believed, it seems like they cancelled it because of Inafune more than any monetary reasons.
Again this ic completely retarded reasoning.
They are a company that wants to make money for god sake.
Not to mention if they were so focused on ripping out Inafune's influence they wouldn't still be on the Western Kick, they wouldn't allow Zero who is Inafune's pride and joy to be in MvC III and Ultimate over say X and they would have dropped the axe on Bad Box art Mega Man in SF X T which is a result of Inafune.
The We are petty and angry so we are going to cancel Inafune's game makes no sense when you take the fanboy crazyness away.
Also lets not forget that out of all the people to do this kinda shit it would have been Inafune himself, He was the man that constantly threw his co workers under the bus and the shit that happened between him and Clover.
Just look at the sales, Capcom had every reason to send Rock/X/Dash into a black hole until they can come up with something to increase sales.
I don't believe that you are well versed on the situation. The issue was that both of Inafunes pet projects had no real support from the rest of the board beause they weren't in keeping with the new mega hits only strategy. There was also a problem of manpower, because of how much people Dragons Dogma was taking up internally.
No but it would increase Dev costs and for a game they already don't believe will make a return enough to be worth while
"Worst day in gaming history."
For all the people that really think Capcom did it out of spite just think about these things.
Capcom as a Company is continuing with things that Inafune set in motion.
Lost Planet 3 is being made by a Western Dev team. Inafune pushed the original LP and he is the reason behind the big western push.
DmC is again another direct result of Inafune's push for Capcom/Western relations.
Dead Rising and Frank West continue to be incredibly important to Capcom and like LP it is something that Inafune pushed.
Zero despite all the issues Rock has had over the last 7/8 years is still being used, not only Zero, but Inafune Designed Zero.
So, Capcom are going to let the ideas and things the man setup to continue to influence the way they run the company, they are going to continue to push franchises the man had a direct hand in creating and even use one of the single most important creations in the mans mind even when the overall franchise is in decilne.
They are going to do all that, but cancel a game that if we go by anything including Original releases or the port to PSP was going to do OK at BEST all to get at the man?
Do you guys really not see the problem with this idea?
bububu inafune-sama was excommunicated
For all the people that really think Capcom did it out of spite just think about these things.
Capcom as a Company is continuing with things that Inafune set in motion.
Lost Planet 3 is being made by a Western Dev team. Inafune pushed the original LP and he is the reason behind the big western push.
DmC is again another direct result of Inafune's push for Capcom/Western relations.
Dead Rising and Frank West continue to be incredibly important to Capcom and like LP it is something that Inafune pushed.
Zero despite all the issues Rock has had over the last 7/8 years is still being used, not only Zero, but Inafune Designed Zero.
So, Capcom are going to let the ideas and things the man setup to continue to influence the way they run the company, they are going to continue to push franchises the man had a direct hand in creating and even use one of the single most important creations in the mans mind even when the overall franchise is in decilne.
They are going to do all that, but cancel a game that if we go by anything including Original releases or the port to PSP was going to do OK at BEST all to get at the man?
Do you guys really not see the problem with this idea?
Trying to act like Dash 3/Universe was cut simply because they wanted t oget back at him, and not because they are trying t maxamize profit is lunacy.
Nothing you just posted has any relevance to what I said, but sure. It's not like Capcom would throw out everything that was working or kill MegaMan. In fact if anything this post only strengthen my comments earlier.
But it does.
It shows that Capcom wouldn't kill anything at all just because it Inafune wanted it.
This is not something I was ever arguing.
All good.
Facebook page has reached 94500.
That's easy: No one if it doesn't come out.
I wonder if all of those people are actually going to buy a copy of the game?
1/3rd of those people would buy the game.
It's too bad they couldn't test the water with a PSN classic or XBLA/PSN rerelease of Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 for testing the waters to see how they'd do.
1/3rd of those people would buy the game.
They did in a way with the PSP Dash 1/2 port. Even in Japan it didn't do very well and given Dash's overall appeal placing it on a console could have limited it's audience in Japan even further.
Except it wouldn't, it would have to sell much worse than previous Legends games to do that. Insipid comments like the one above are really silly, and add nothing to the conversation.
They couldn't have had high expectations for straight ports of the PS1 games released onto the PSP during a lull.
For all the people that really think Capcom did it out of spite just think about these things.
Capcom as a Company is continuing with things that Inafune set in motion.
Lost Planet 3 is being made by a Western Dev team. Inafune pushed the original LP and he is the reason behind the big western push.
DmC is again another direct result of Inafune's push for Capcom/Western relations.
Dead Rising and Frank West continue to be incredibly important to Capcom and like LP it is something that Inafune pushed.
Zero despite all the issues Rock has had over the last 7/8 years is still being used, not only Zero, but Inafune Designed Zero.
So, Capcom are going to let the ideas and things the man setup to continue to influence the way they run the company, they are going to continue to push franchises the man had a direct hand in creating and even use one of the single most important creations in the mans mind even when the overall franchise is in decilne.
They are going to do all that, but cancel a game that if we go by anything including Original releases or the port to PSP was going to do OK at BEST all to get at the man?
Do you guys really not see the problem with this idea?
1: Dissolves Clover, dev team that made 2 of the best ps2 games(Okami and God Hand, though the latter is obviously debatable to people) as well as the Viewtiful Joe series. Practically dissolved right after they released Okami too. They then proceeded to rerelease Okami on the Wii... sans credits.
2: That statement a few years ago about there never being another Breath of Fire game. Ok yeah, this is a bit personal, but my heart died a little at that.
3: This entire MML3 debacle.
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While I agree, the idea that it would have helped to have it on PSN/Live likely would have led to even worse sales then the package on PSP.
As it is, full on Remakes of Rock and X didn't perform that well and both of them are much more popular characters then Trigger.
I don't know if a remakes held them back, but I don't see Dash 3 out performing RMRM/IHX.
I could see Dash 3 doing so in Japan and other territories. My reasoning would be that, while classic MegaMan and X had been largely more popular at their heyday, both characters had pretty much completely burnt out by the time RMRM/IHX came out. A good looking open world action RPG on the 3DS could have done much better than those titles, especially during a period of content starving on the 3DS in conjunction with a lot of very dedicated rabid fans spreading word of mouth. Yeah, Dash/Legends 3 would never be a GTA, but it was posed to do respectable numbers, at least in my opinion.