>Announced in 2011
>set for a 2012 release
>Start of a trilogy of games, with an anime, multi-media franchise in the works
>delayed until 2014
>cancelled in 2015
>Publisher Marvelous lost 3.8 million dollars
>Developer Intercept died
Literally how did Keiji Inafune do it? It's like he went out of his way to fuck this up.
>>383721790
He's the luckiest con man alive, that's how. He got where he is today just from being the only guy left out of the original Megaman team and just kept getting promoted again and again just because of seniority.
>>383721790
Game was nothing but vaporware designed on getting publisher money
>>383722363
link
>>383722258
Initially, that's how he became a producer. First Kitamura left. Then Fujiwara left. So now they figure Inafune's been with the series for a while, maybe he should be the producer for the games. Then in the early 00's, Inafune was producer for a series of hit games, including Onimusha, Battle Network series. These are genuine hits, so it makes sense to give the guy a promotion right? Then he's producer for Dead Rising, Lost Planet, big hits. More promotions. He seems pretty good at this, so why not make him more than a simple producer? He keeps rising.
It all made sense at the time because all his past successes were great.
>>383722363
>Game was nothing but vaporware designed on getting publisher money
That would be an outright scam.
>>383722258
That would be fine, if he did not talk SO MUCH SHIT, like I have never seen someone up his own ass so much in vidya. Not even in America.
>>383723297
Inafune bought into his own hype.
>>383723153
other than a short 3m trailer
nothing happened except inafune making bank off marvelous with an empty promise of a new IP from THE CREATOR OF MEGAMAN
>>383723712
We don't know anything about the internal developments. It's usually better to blame ineptitude rather than malice. They probably were just idiots and got over their heads.
>>383723495
I know you can't fit people into categories like this, but he really acts like an american asshole.
It's weird but Mark Cerny acts super Japanese in comparision.
>>383723848
After starting like 6 different kickstarter campaigns for MN9 i doubt it wasnt done on purpose
>>383724080
He's an idiot. He thought that Crowd funding was just an infinite bank he could get money from. He didn't realize it works a lot like a publisher where they expect results and won't fund you forever.
Everything Inafune has done can be explained by "Inafune is a fucking retard".
I think he's decent as an artist/producer. That's where he should have stayed.
>>383724357
He is/was a prducer effectively.