>>718917998
Not even AAA, a AA game would be perfectly acceptable. Just get a project manager to tardwrangle some Brazilian fans and let them make a Mega Man X9 for fuck's sake. They'll work for peanuts. Throw in a crumb of actual marketing and they'll get 100x their investment easily.
>ERRM NO?? uh aheh, do you KNOW things cost MONEY?? it wouldn't even sell one billion copies!
It was never about the money with Capcom. It's literally just the fact that no one there wants to make a Mega Man game. That's the real reason why we aren't getting them.

>>718918619
>let's not make this game because it won't make AS much money as this other thing even though it's basically free money since we have near-infinite resources from our other money printers
>nooo not profit that would be horrible!!!
Doesn't check out. What is so hard to believe about Capcom just not wanting to make it? Nintendo chose not to make a new Mario game and instead make a DK game despite the fact that Mario games sell big boy numbers. When you're making money as much as Capcom does, you can afford to pick and choose which IP you want to develop for. They simply do not want to make more Mega Man games.

Also Phoenix Wright's trilogy sold more than Mega Man 11. What's your point? That AA is somehow more popular and relevant than Mega Man despite not getting any games in just about as long? (And let's ignore the fact that the majority of Mega Man's games came out in the 80s where the sales numbers aren't going to be nearly the same as today's. Never mind inflation.) I just don't think sales are the end all be all for deciding what game a developer/publisher wants to make. Again, Capcom can afford to make whatever the fuck they want. They just aren't making Mega Man.