Capcom is doing their best while working with the new Mega Man title. This new entry that is coming for PC is gonna be released hopefully in 2027 for the 40th anniversary of the saga. Yet, Capcom decided to celebrate now because our blue robot of justice deserves it, after being mistreated by its parent company for more than decade. Its been a while, but he is back, everyone was waiting since the release of Mega Man 11 in 2018 and it almost feels like a whole lifetime went by. It is crazy that the difference between 8 and 11 is more than 2 decades.
Capcom did the right thing
Bringing the Blue Bomber back will surely generate enough PR buzz for the company to keep being afloat and at top of the competitive chain. 2026 will have us receiving the Mega Man Star Force Collection, which is quite surprising since we didn’t see a Mega Man Legends Collection yet. I wonder if the last collection they will release is either one with some compilations of side games, or if Mega Man Legends is next, I really hope its the latter but the former would also be really good to get.
There’s so many games in the series, sometimes they even produced 2 Mega Man games per year, which was a crazy metric but justifiable when you realize how simple they are to make once you have the framework running. Of course, quality is a thing to keep in mind, level design isn’t an easy thing to do and not many people seem inspired nowadays to do it right. I believe that Capcom still has it in them to provide some amazing run and gunning action that no other company aside from Inti Creates can give us, I wonder what will be the main gimmick of Mega Man Dual Override.
