Capcom’s Christian Svensson on what he feels is wrong with Mega Man
Mega Man has been experiencing a downward spiral over the past few years. There was the cancelled Mega Man Legends project, and also the canned Mega Man Universe project.
Capcom USA’s senior vice-president Christian Svensson has offered his own thoughts as to why the IP has been experiencing issues.
While not representative of Capcom’s thoughts overall, Svensson feels that there have been “too many competing splinter sub-brands within it.”
Svensson said the following when asked about a possible Mega Man reboot:
“I (and probably I alone so please don’t ascribe said belief to ‘Capcom’) think one of the problems MM has had as a brand is that we’ve had too many competing splinter sub-brands within it. I’m not sure starting yet another is the way to get the franchise as a whole back on track more than creating greater brand confusion but we’ll take it under advisement.”
