The Mega Man franchise has largely been dormant since 2018 when Mega Man 11 was launched. Other than the title character’s visitor appearances in Monster Hunter: World and Tremendous Smash Bros. Final, there have not been many Mega Man sightings since. Nonetheless, Capcom lately addressed Mega Man’s potential future and said that the franchise stays “vital” to the corporate.
Throughout a recent shareholder Q&A (by way of Noisy Pixel), Capcom was requested about plans for Mega Man, and an organization spokesperson replied, “The Mega Man collection is considered one of our most vital IPs, and we’re constantly contemplating methods to develop it additional. Nonetheless, we don’t have any further data we will share at the moment.” Capcom’s consultant went on to notice that there’s “a very excessive quantity of inquiries” about Mega Man from abroad markets with out elaborating any additional.
The corporate’s newest remarks are similar to a Mega Man replace from 2024, the place Capcom famous that it’s “contemplating how one can create video games for it on an ongoing foundation.” Whereas the basic video games within the collection are available on-line, there’s been no phrase about any additional sequels.
In 2018, a live-action Mega Man film was in improvement at twentieth Century Fox. Venture Energy administrators Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost had been signed to helm the movie. Subsequently, a live-action Mega Man challenge was arrange at Netflix in 2021, though it was unclear if that was meant to be rather than the film. To date, there have not been any concrete developments with that challenge.