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

I understand your opinion and agree with it when it comes to the franchise in general, but excluding cameos and crossovers, didn't the Legends series already took a break for a decade? Mega Man Legends is a part of the Mega Man series in general, but it is also its own series, similar to Final Fight and Street Fighter. Although they aren't the same game series, they belong to the same universe, and all of them belong to Capcom. So why not delay the game by stopping working on it for a while instead of cancelling it?

I have no idea how well the Legends games sold, but although it certainly didn't got close to best-sellers like Mario (which also made a jump from 2D to 3D), it wasn't poor either, as both Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 obtained the The Best budget range in Japan and the first one obtained the Greatest Hits range in US. (The slow underwater areas didn't helped the 2nd game. Fortunately it was fixed in the PSP version.)