Game news 10 years later, Nintendo finally cancels the 3DS version of this disappointing video game
Published on 01/12/2025 at 1:25 p.m.
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Fans of the Mega Man saga are lamenting the termination of the license. For several years, she has only lived on occasional outings with more or less important ambitions. However, in 2013, the “creator” of Mega Man attempted a daring comeback.
The legendary failure of Mighty n°9
Of all the failures in video game history, Mighty n°9 is perhaps one of the most resounding. In 2013, Keiji Inafune and his studio Comcept launched a crowdfunding campaign for their game Mighty n°9a spiritual sequel to the license Megaman then already largely neglected by Capcom and of which Inafune is considered one of the creators. However, things are going to get a little worse. If the Kickstarter campaign is a success, raising more than $4 million, fans will complain about the numerous postponements Additionally, when Inafune launches the Kickstarter campaign of Red Ashanother of his projects while Mighty n°9 was still entangled in the throes of a development that seemed to drag on.
3 years after its Kickstarter, multiple postponements and a handful of controversies, Mighty n°9 was released on consoles and PC in June 2016. Players will have the misfortune of discovering a mediocre game, rather negatively received by the press and the public. In addition, the game was supposed to have a second release for its 3DS and PS Vita versions, versions which, as you suspect, will never see the light of day.
Final resolution
Indeed, players who have kept their pre-orders for the 3DS version of the game recently reported Amazon’s automatic cancellation of their pre-order. It must be said that the announcement of the two versions dates back more than 10 years ago and that players have been waiting for their releases for 9 years now. Since then, Nintendo has already abandoned its 3DS, production of which ended in 2020 and whose online store was closed in 2023. Same thing for the PS Vita, which will have ceased to be produced in 2019 and which will mark the end of Sony’s adventure in the portable console market.
The few diehards who still clung to the hope of receiving their cartridge of Mighty n°9 will perhaps find some comfort in the idea that this epic is finally coming to an end. For Comcept, the debacle of its game led to its absorption by Level 5 (Professor Layton, Inazuma Eleven) while Keiji Inafune, whose image did not emerge unscathed from this affair, recently distinguished itself with an NFT project called Beastroid. Everyone will be judge…
