Capcom registers 'multiplatform' Mega Man 9 with OFLC

by Griffin McElroy { Jun 14th 2008 at 11:30AM }

We began to lose track of games featuring Capcom's iconic blue bomber when they began adding arbitrary letters and words to each sequel -- that's why we were overjoyed to hear that Capcom recently registered Mega Man 9 with the Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia's ESRB). That's right, just Mega Man 9 -- not Mega Man Zero 9, Mega Man X9, Mega Man 9 ZX, or Mega Man 9 2: Electric Boogaloo.

The OFLC entry has the game slated for a multiplatform release, though the most insubstantial of rumors hint that Rockman's new adventure will take place on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. We usually scoff at unattributed gossip, but with vivid visions of online multi-man robot slaying dancing through our heads, our powerful scoffin' muscles feel a tad bit atrophied.

Tags: capcom, mega-man-9, megaman, megaman9, oflc, psn, rumor, xbla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Misfit Toy @ Jun 14th 2008 11:32AM

He looks like a renegade Smurf.

JerJerBinks @ Jun 14th 2008 12:01PM

Actually, he looks like a giant blue douche .... nozzle included.

GalileoAce @ Jun 14th 2008 2:01PM

He looks like me! Argh!

Lone Starr @ Jun 14th 2008 3:06PM

A renegade smurf who was not cast in the new live-action Smurf movie by Sony.

Misfit Toy @ Jun 14th 2008 11:42AM

"I have come to enslave your world! Take me to your leader...or else"

theturtle363 @ Jun 14th 2008 12:22PM

God i feel so bad for that guy. I hope he has a girlfriend. At least he isn't that fat

Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Jun 14th 2008 1:17PM

No way man, girls have cooties!!! : 0

Hotrod @ Jun 14th 2008 2:42PM

Wow, that guy is making me depressed for him. He should go to another country, change his name, get a tan and a new haircut. A little bit of amnesia wouldn't hurt either.

CJC @ Jun 14th 2008 12:27PM

Wait, a REAL Megaman game?

Someone call Hell, tell them there's a blizzard moving in!

xxxxThe_GoaTxxxx @ Jun 14th 2008 12:28PM

It better be good Megaman.

None of this off-shoot, quasi-3D/RPG element crap.

I want jumping, shooting, sliding, Rush, and 8 freakin' bosses that, when I beat them, I get their powers.

Megaman has been dead since X4.

ChooChooCharlie (MK 0430-8740-2222) @ Jun 14th 2008 12:41PM

If they could do a 3D Mega Man with all of the elements of a classic 2D Mega Man, I'd be all for it. Not like Mega Man 64, though. I've played that game. It's not so good.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 1:25PM

MegaMan Legends (aka MM64) was awesome. It was very different from everything that previously constituted as a "Megaman game," but it was still great.

Pedobear @ Jun 14th 2008 4:51PM

I'd prefer a new megaman legends game over the side scrolling ones any day.

Vaitork @ Jun 14th 2008 5:29PM

You must be a young fellow, Pedobear.

Know, appreciate and embrace your roots!

Brian @ Jun 15th 2008 10:22AM

@ChooChooCharlie:

You mean like Mega Man X8? No thanks. I want 2D.

mksolo @ Jun 14th 2008 12:38PM

xbla title, 10 bucks, megaman, perfect. buying this if it looks good.

Dr. Stabbingworth @ Jun 14th 2008 6:40PM

2D or GTFO!

Jacksons @ Jun 14th 2008 12:39PM

If it's anything like the original 7, I'm in (sorry, didn't care for 8.)

flameofdoom666 @ Jun 14th 2008 4:22PM

8 wasn't bad- but I love 7. It is my favorite Megaman EVER. I also really liked 2 and 6.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 4:58PM

You know what's wrong with MM8 (besides the silly dubbing)?
"JUMP! JUMP! SLIDE! SLIDE!"

2 and 3 were the tops in the series. But 7 and MM&B were great, too.

Mr Khan @ Jun 14th 2008 12:45PM

Wouldn't make sense to me, if anything i figured new Megaman would go to DS

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 1:35PM

If the poor sales of the PSP remakes show anything (both Maverick Hunter X and Powered Up in Japan only sold as well as Maverick Hunter X did on its own in America... Which wasn't very good), that most of Megaman's fans aren't with Sony or Microsoft, they're with Nintendo. Even the Classic and X Collections sold best on GameCube, surprisingly.
(a real shame, too, as the PSP remakes were incredible)

Still, any continuation of the Classic series makes me glad. Would rather it'd be a retail title than a download one, though.

DBuck_Eye @ Jun 14th 2008 4:30PM

If Metal Slug 7 and Contra 4 are any indication, companies like to bring back great and somewhat-dead series on the DS. Also, didn't Capcom have a survey on its website a while back where you voted on what console you wanted the next Megaman to be on? That would probably be a good indicator...

kataztrophy @ Jun 14th 2008 1:25PM

Why do all Mega Man cosplayers look like Tron rejects? Capcom has a few other(under appreciated) series they need to resurrect. I want Power Stone instead of another flood of Mega Man titles.

Kye - M-Kart Wii 0817-4620-2062 @ Jun 14th 2008 2:02PM

Here-here!

Lets start a chant for Power Stone 3!

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 4:57PM

I support the revival of Power Stone.

I also wish I had a copy of Power Stone 2.

juju187 @ Jun 14th 2008 1:30PM

multi player FTW
bass rockman roll rush.
comic book guy also sez
"Worst costume ever!"

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 5:35PM

"bass rockman"
It's either Rockman & Forte, or Megaman & Bass.
Try not to mix up the English and Japanese names, okay?

Better yet, just use the English names. Since, afterall, we're not speaking Japanese here, anyways.

Noshino @ Jun 14th 2008 5:47PM

"It's either Rockman & Forte, or Megaman & Bass.
Try not to mix up the English and Japanese names, okay?"

Uh, even though I grew in S. America, my uncle used to bring me the titles from Japan, so I got more used to calling him Rockman than Megaman (and cmon, it sounds much cooler!)

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 5:52PM

Personally, I always thought "Rockman" was a dumb name.

He neither has the power of EARTH (that would be Stoneman) or music.

And,yes, I know that before he was a super fighting robot, he was a house-keeping robot named Rock. However, for Rock to called Rockman is like Mr. Kent being called Clarkman or Mr. Wayne being called Bruceman. It just sounds silly.

Noshino @ Jun 14th 2008 6:08PM

uh, the name Rockman had a little more meaning than that, lol...

But yah, he based the names on music genres, Rockman, Roll, and Blues

Yan @ Jun 14th 2008 1:30PM

We need a conclusive tie-in between the events of The Power Fighters and Rockman X. I hope you know what you're doing, Capcom. Consulting Keiji Inafune would be the right move, in my opinion.

Jhongerkong @ Jun 14th 2008 1:34PM

I was hoping for Mega Man Soccer 2, but this will suffice.

stoik @ Jun 14th 2008 2:10PM

After the dig dug one I expected you to use this.
https://www.awfulmart.com/sc_images/products/337_large_image.jpg

Skunk Ape @ Jun 14th 2008 2:17PM

cmon capcom. give us a ps3 exclusive 50gb sidescroller. 100 hours of megaman in full hd. that would blow my mind.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 2:40PM

Why make it exclusive? Just so it'll make your e-pen0r bigger?

A game like Megaman 9 should be multiplatform, so that more people can enjoy it.

Skunk Ape @ Jun 14th 2008 2:59PM

make it exclusive because other systems dont support bluray.......... Im not trying to bash any of the other systems, but they just can't do what the PS3 can because of the space issues. I suppose I could live with a regular multiplatform release, but I just want to see a balls to the wall amazing side scroller. Ever since PS2, they've all but died out and I want to see what is possible to with one. The PS3 is the only system that can do everything that's possible to be done on a current console and that is because of blu-ray. fuck it. make mega man a multiplatform release. Just give me 50gb of Castlevania sidescrolling love.

Pedobear @ Jun 14th 2008 4:53PM

And what is it that the ps3 has done that other systems cant because of space?

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 4:56PM

As big as it is, even MGS4 isn't 50GB. When Kojima complained about the storage space of Blu-ray, he meant a single-layer disc. Kojima Productions got permission from Sony to use a dual-layer disc, making MGS4 the first dual-layer BD game.

Any Megaman title would not be nearly as big as MGS4. It wouldn't need the amount of space, nor would it have the kind of budget. If people think MGS is niche, Megaman is even more so. The best selling game in the franchise (Megaman 2, NES), topped out at about 1.5M worldwide.

A dual-layer BD would be wasted on Megaman. Plus, Inafking (Keiji Inafune) has already acknowledged that PS3 and 360 really aren't the place for Megaman, due to their smaller user bases, and the primary markets on them (FPS with the blat-blat, yo).

And, BD would be wasted on Castlevania, too.

Noshino @ Jun 14th 2008 5:34PM

BPM,

can you link the article about Inafune saying that the 360 and/or PS3 aren't the place for Megaman/Rockman?

I had heard about him saying that he was working on the Wii, but he didn't specify about user base or primary market...

Well, not only that, but the poll there was a year ago on the japanese Rockman site about their console of choice for the next Rockman, the Wii won, followed by the DS and PSP respectively

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 5:47PM

Okay, found the article...
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159987

Basically, his primary concern with creating an HD* Megaman is whether or not Capcom would be able to cover the costs for such a project. However, if money wasn't a concern, and he could do whatever he'd want, he'd love to do an HD MegaMan Legends 3.

*NOTE: I use the term "HD" to specify 360/PS3 because they are NOT next-gen, they are CURRENT-GEN (as they are the currently available systems), as is Wii. Only difference is that Wii isn't an HD system.

Noshino @ Jun 14th 2008 6:15PM

Oh man, Inafune is the shit...

I don't know BPM, there are many contradictions.

I guess we just have to see where Legends 3 goes, maybe Kaz or Kim put some money on the table...after all, Legends 3, in HD, would make any of the consoles quite famous in Japan, a region that both the PS3 and 360 are lagging behind...

Anyway, we would just have to wait and see til E3, because there still some more "secret" titles by Capcom that could end up being this one...

Skunk Ape @ Jun 14th 2008 6:20PM

@pedobear
ummm just go play mgs4 and uncharted. then see if you need to ask that question again. The 360 is a great system. I occasionally flame it for fun, but in all seriousness, it's just as good as the ps3 is with 2 exceptions. It uses old dvds and it doesn't have installs. With those 2 upgrades, the 360 would probably be the better system. Without them, the PS3 will continue to be more capable than the competition.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 14th 2008 6:55PM

The capacity of DVD hasn't been much of an issue for 360 thus far. If memory serves me right, the only games to be multi-disc were Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey (both of which utilized a lot of FMV).

And there are 360 games that give you the option to do HDD installs to help with loading times.

Am I saying BD is unncessary? No. I don't think MGS4 could fit on a single DVD (but, that all depends on how the BD was utilized... How compressed is the audio/textures? Is there repeated data, like in Obliviion?). But that's an exclusive, so who knows how an 360 version would be like (just wait for MGS4: [something]stance lol).

Oh, and Noshino... As much as I've love for it, Megaman really doesn't have the kind of selling power to boost any system's sales. Only ones to break a million worldwide were MM2, MMX1, and a couple of the Battle Networks.