Eight Bit With A Twist!:Megaman X Street Fighter!

Totally relevant: This is from an interview by Destrudtoid to Capcom USA Senior Vice-President Christian Svensson and Senior Community Manager Brett Elston.

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"We'll be using this as one of many means of gauging where we're going," Christian told me. "One of the challenges that we have is figuring out what is the path forward in terms of, you know, Mega Man has five brands: Classic, X, ZX, Battle Network/Star Force, and Legends. Some of these things are in the same ballpark as one another, and some of them are completely different. That's part of where the, I'll say, the disagreement comes in -- a non-unified vision of where Mega Man should live on exists within our own company as well as it does in the market.

"I would argue that if anything, if we get a million downloads of [Street Fighter X Mega Man], and certainly I think that's the floor I hope to see -- it's free, it should hopefully do more than that! -- that just helps raise awareness for the brand across the board and creates fertile ground for things to happen regardless of which direction that it kind of comes in."

You know, I think using the game to gauge the amount of people that cares about Megaman isnt a totally bad idea. Even if they already tried to do the same and then threw it out the window with a lie, but a 1 million downloands benchmark? Even if most gaming sites have announced the release of this game, unless they keep advertising it that wont cause enough awareness to reach that many. It isn't even fair come on, Capcom wouldn't be where they are if it wasn't for Megaman.

Considering Capcom is only investing on big games like LP3, MH, DmC and REIt feels like they just wanna measure if Megaman has enough of a fan base to support a big game like those, if not there will be no games.