User blog comment:Kaihedgie/Mega Man not "dead" or "dying"/@comment-177.42.141.66-20111002004927/@comment-893798-20111002010151

Legends sold the least out of any of the series as I said, only just near the hundred-thousands whereas the the trading card-esque games and Zero series sold in the hundred thousands and the Classic and X series going in the millions.

You can't really compare Legends to Street Fighter and Final Fight. The only thing Final Fight and Street Fighter have in common is the continuity but they're generally regarded as completely different from one another. Not the same with Legends since it carries the Mega Man name and is ultimately just another addition into an already confusingly large franchise with one too many branch offs.

I should have mentioned this in my first post earlier, but we're kind of in a recession right now and Capcom has lost quite a bit of manpower (as you can see they don't even have spriters anymore) so they're investing their work on new projects that will hopefully garner new fans and customers instead of a continuation of a franchise that didn't really do all that well or net them a sizable amount of funds.