Capcom on how Mega Man Battle Community Legacy Assortment got here to be

Mega Man Battle Community Legacy Assortment director Masakazu Eguchi has briefly mentioned the origins of the discharge.

Eguchi spoke about the way it got here to be in an interview with 4Gamer. It appears that evidently the venture was within the works for about two years, and whereas Capcom already selected issues internally, it appears like followers’ curiosity additionally helped make issues a actuality.

Right here’s our translation:

First, are you able to inform us about how the plan for Mega Man Battle Community Legacy Assortment happened?

Eguchi: For a very long time we had obtained requests from followers to port the Mega Man collection. Moreover we had numerous departments throughout the firm suggesting plans for the ports, and that’s how we selected doing it.

When did improvement begin?

Eguchi: It’s arduous to say precisely, however about two years in the past.

Two years in the past would have been across the time of the twentieth anniversary of the collection proper? I’d think about round that point the requires a port would have heightened, did additionally they have an effect on the belief of the venture?

Eguchi: Sure, definitely. We already had plans throughout the firm for the ports, however the strengthening of followers’ voices round that twentieth anniversary performed an element in its realization. We obtained an important response once we introduced the venture.

Mega Man Battle Community Legacy Assortment launched on Change and different platforms again in April. Capcom confirmed that over a million copies had been bought not too lengthy after.

Translation offered by Simon Griffin and SatsumaFS on behalf of Nintendo The whole lot.