*UPDATE* Seth Killian on new MM: “You’ll be waiting a while”
April 25, 2009 by Heat Man
Filed under Mega Man News
This past weekend held the GameStop Street Fighter IV National Tournament in San Francisco, where Seth Killian, Capcom USA’s community manager, was present to give play-by-play commentary on the unfolding matches. MMN viewer Christian was present at the event, and got a chance to chat a little bit with Seth.
First of all, Seth is still adamantly quiet towards the fabled “Mega Man 9 secret,” as would be expected. Christian then asked what Mega Man games we could be looking forward to besides the summer-bound Mega Man Star Force 3. According to Christian, Seth’s response was merely “You’ll be waiting a while.”
Of course, this isn’t hard to believe. We already have been waiting a while. Nevertheless, we will try to make confirmation with Seth and see if we can perhaps get some clarification. And of course we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled to CAPTIVATE ‘09, just in case.
Thanks for the tip, Christian.
UPDATE: We received word from Seth concerning the comment. While he does not recall the specific conversation, he was incredibly busy at the event and it likely could have happened. Regardless, he does condone the idea, so if he didn’t say it then he’s certainly saying it now. And in his own words, “Of course as to how long ‘a while’ might be, I have no comment 
”.
I’d expect a RockMan 10 to hit WiiWare during 2010 or 2011.
we have to accept it
Rockman is dead…
CAPCOM is now focused in 3D more mature franchises.
Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Lost Planet, Dead Rising.
Rockman is too much good for this world
Goodbye Rock, X, ZERO, Rock Volnutt, Bones, Vent, Allie and everyone… I’ll miss you
At least Hikari Netto had a self contained series with an end.
I don’t know what will happen with Subaru either, I can only wish him to be lucky enough to have a non opened ending.
Pessimistic much, ZERO?
We’ll be waiting a while. Which could easily mean that; for once; Capcom is going to put a lot of time and effort and make a truly epic Rockman game; graphics, gameplay, and story-wise. Honestly, the fact that we’ll be “waiting a while” for the new Rockman game that, need I remind you, has ALREADY BEEN ANNOUNCED in CoroCoro; likely means that they’re putting more effort into this new game; and as such; it will take longer. Actually, this fills me with a bit of hope that it could finally be our long-awaited DASH/Legends 3 on the way; cause we all know that would definitely take a while to develop.
Plus I don’t trust Seth. Wasn’t he the one who called Plug Man Hard Man on the Mega Man 9 trial?
Seth isn’t a platforming gamer, that much is obvious. But to say you don’t trust him because he can’t masterfully play one out of the dozens of franchises Capcom develops and produces is pretty strange.
Interestingly enough, Amazon.ca still lists Star Force 3 (both versions) as coming out June 30th.
R.I.P. MegaMan : (((
Mh I think Zeromaverick is right…
we know the end of megaman was comming anyone…
Awww, everyone’s so sad! Look what you’ve done, Seth!
But seriously though, I really do want to be optimistic about this – taking longer normally means that a game will be better – but we don’t even know if they’re working on it right now. They seriously could have it on hold for a few months – maybe even a few years – until they have more free resources or time or something.
I mean I love Capcom – for so many of their franchises they offer top-notch awesomeness consistently. MegaMan, however, seems to be Capcom’s least-loved series. It always gets the least amount of effort, resources, and quality control – the short end of the stick. I love the series – quite obviously considering how much time and money I’ve spent on him in the last 22 years – but I just wish Capcom would give one MegaMan game the kind of treatment that Resident Evil, Bionic Commando, or Street Fighter get constantly.
MegaMan 9 was a step in the right direction for the series of course – it brought MegaMan “back to the masses” (to quote Reggie on Wii) – but in all honesty it didn’t offer anything truly new. And as cute as 8-bit sprites are, I’d have preferred if MegaMan 9 wasn’t the only game Classic Series game in over 10 years and it isn’t even a real sequel. The abilities, graphics, characters, and story all were gimped in some way. The game is fantastic and provides a ton of fun…. but only for a limited time.
Sorry, I’m rambling – I guess I’m still bitter over Capcom killing my dreams of MegaMan Powered Up 2. D:
-Age
I was so happy when I heard about Irregular Hunter X and Rockman Rockman, they were meant to be a restart in current generation, amazing anime videos, great gameplay, graphics, voices, extras like robot master, blues, roll, level editor.
But everything was broken when capcom cancelled IHX2 and RR2, I agree that Rockman 9 was a step in the right direction, I can only dream with a sequel of Rockman X in 32-bits (for me X4 is still the best Rockman X ever)
I really hope this isn’t a sign of “the end.” MM9 was quite successful, I’d be shocked if they stopped now and not pursue something new.
Here’s hoping for a wee bit of clarification from Seth.
Honestly, I sincerely doubt this is the end. Even without Capcom, there’s a whole community here. Surely WE could take on the challenge of continuing this series as free-to-play games if they drop it?
Megaman isn’t dead! the seth guy only said it wasn’t ready yet plus I doubt Capcom would just abadon the blue bomber! Megaman is the mascott of Capcom it would be like if Nintendo stoped making Mario games how un realistic is that! I heard that there is a megaman game under devlopment right now I saw it at protodudes corner so Megaman isn’t dead.
Every time I hear Seth Killian talk, I feel even more strongly that he is bad for Capcom PR. All that he has been doing lately is frustrating Mega Man fans.
ZX advent secret ending shows ZX3 is being made. Calm down society
@ Sun>
It doesn’t necessarily show that ZX3 is being made, just that they left the window open for it. Legends 2 and X8 have open endings too, but who can say when they’ll ever be picked up. Still it’s certainly not out of the question.
Drama queens.
Rockman’ll never die.
He’s been around for more than twenty years. He’s more or less a sociological institution in the world, now.
Capcom hasn’t beaten it’s dead horse to a pulp just yet.
ambiguous comments make me MAD
then SAD
I think a “Megaman X: The Elf Wars” game would be cool.
maybe it would be a strategy game or something.
@cobalt
an interesting idea, but I already have a stack of strategy titles to get through (mostly ps2). I crave more 2D platforming action!!
I’d love to see them take the ideas of ZX, but expand on the open map structure aspect of it to be even more interconnected like Metroid and Castlevania. I think both ZX games were really solid, but if they made the map even more interconnected like that I think they could make the greatest game ever.
As much as it is sad to hear that there is no Mega Man game apparently to look forward to, I’m very skeptical of Seth Killian really knowing what’s going on with Capcom in regards to Mega Man.
For starters wasn’t there recently a boss contest held for some unknown Mega Man game…. I mean it was posted about here;
http://www.themmnetwork.com/?p=1481
Whether in fact for Star Force who knows, although I think it would be cool to see one of the other series get a surprise sequel. ZX is my current priority for a sequel. I would love to see a Mega Man X sequel though… on WiiWare preferably though mind you in 16-Bit graphics… although many aren’t for it. I just enjoyed the tight gameplay and the music more in those times.
Man, all of ya just need to keep your traps shut about Mega Man being dead, cause it’s NOT. How long was it between Super Metroid and Metroid Prime? 8-10 years or something like that? In fact, Metroid is proof that a series can come back from hibernation and be back on top, so all of ya just keep your pessimistic mouths shut and wait like Seth suggests.
…So, he said we’d be waiting “a while” and everybody thinks the series is dead? Huh? True, it’s very quiet on the Mega Man front–after Star Force 3 we have no concrete game in the works, which is a far cry from not all that long ago with Battle Network, X8, Command Mission, the PSP games, the collections, and the ZX games. But, while it is the first time in recent years where this has happened, it’s a far cry from the only time. After Mega Man X6 there was at least a couple of years before the Gameboy Advance came around and resurrected the franchise with Battle Network.
We need to understand that Mega Man is not a mainstream series anymore, so it’s not always gonna be a priority for Capcom. They have other franchises that, quite honestly, just make them more money. BUT, the niche that we Mega Man fans fill is not a small niche by any means, and the higher ups at Capcom do have a certain…fondness for their old mascot, so the franchise will not flat out die any time soon. It’s just gonna take some time to rest sometimes.
X9 or MML3, please. XD