マイティートリプル・ヘッダー：「Anime Expo」からのビッグニュース！

To be fair, with Mighty No. 9 being a spiritual successor to Mega Man, and with Mega Man's target audience being mostly children, it kind of stands to reason that making other forms of media something that children will enjoy would be something that Mighty No. 9 ends up doing. While the game itself IS being made more for older fans, they DO have to keep in mind that children are bound to be interested and play the game. By making a cartoon for that age range, it helps gather more support in the form of future fans. It's really no different than the kids that watched the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon and played the games that grew up to be adults. Inafune probably intends to keep a good hold on this IP if only to ensure that if anything happens to it, he knows EXACTLY who to blame: himself. Not another company that did something he didn't want them to do, not someone who made a mockery of it and was paid by his boss. By having as much control over the IP as possible, he eliminates the probability of someone else screwing him over.

I think this set of goals is basically a 'we want all of this extra stuff in the game but because we thought of it last minute we didn't get a chance to put it in and now with how far we've come it'll take a bit more money in order to get to that point and we'd rather run it over with you guys and see how much you want all this stuff in here rather than waste money on a venture that no one liked'. I highly doubt English voice acting is the only thing on the list, I fully expect us to break that limit come the end of this upcoming week, i.e. around the 13th or so. It'll probably be stuff like different forms of co-op or playable characters, maybe some DLC in the form of new bosses that may or may not be 'canon', animated cutscenes, maybe some cross-over stuff with Shovel Knight or Shantae (I know a LOT of people formed some kind of trinity among the three so it's entirely possible that there'll be a shantae cameo or a shovel knight cameo and they just need to pay whatever legal fees they have to in order to make it work), and it might very well be possible to get a physical copy of the game floating out there; I know that having a physical game is more likely to draw in people that never heard of the series before. I mean, Minecraft was able to get a PS3 and 360 version out there, it's entirely possible for Mighty No. 9 to do the same if it can get enough money to show interest in physical media. Even though the game will be available on just about every platform possible, if it's only a digital thing, there's going to be a lot of people who aren't going to know it exists. By having even little vouchers sitting on shelves it can get more attention and drum up a lot more business. I'm thinking that this set of goals is going to  be a combination of 'we want to add more cool stuff that we just thought of but will take up more time and money' and 'we need some help in pushing our ads so that we don't spend so much on it just for nothing'. Considering how all of that money is going to be divided among each goal, I can foresee something like this coming true.