LeviGratton
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Remember, they don't have to actually pony up the dough until October, so it might not be valid.
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Mighty No.9 Kickstarter (PS4/XB1 & Vita/3DS are GO!) (Inafune/IC, $4M FUNDED)
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Remember, they don't have to actually pony up the dough until October, so it might not be valid.
If you click the "How to back" link on the JP version they translate the text boxes of Kickstarter and Amazon for you using pictures
Production IG used it to fund Masaaki yuasa's movie and the creator of little witch academy used it to help with a second episode. I'm sure there are many more examples.
Edit nvm original post was specifically about japanese video games.
Yeah, it's really embarrassing to still see people claim that $900k is some astronomical number. Anyone who suggests that should immediately be forced to provide an estimate of their own, and exactly how they reached that estimate.
And then they need to go read this thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=516730
MagnaderAlpha
Member
There's actually quite a few convoluted franchises out there that can benefit from something like this.
Probably the legal guy at capcom
Ha!
LiveFromKyoto
Member
Wow. I went to bed and it got $300k overnight. Dat WiiU version incoming confirmed.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Regardless of how risky Kickstarters are or how much Inafune is to blame for Capcom's myriad poor decisions over the last two generations, the development team itself is consistently great at making Mega Man-likes, so I'm considering this a safe investment. That said, I'm waiting to play the game, not to receive the grab-bag stuff.
Aquamarine
Member
For western blockbuster games, $2.5 million is indeed quite low. But it's quite normal for Japan.
Standard HD Japanese games (not Western-oriented blockbusters like Final Fantasy or Resident Evil) tend to cost around $3 million to develop.
Regular handheld games (think PSP releases) cost more like $600,000, or even less at times.
Comcept, with a $900,000 Kickstarter goal in mind, is probably looking at a $2 million budget to break even. So in a sense, their budget is very much in line with normal Japanese production costs.
SolarPowered
Member
It was second or third with $92,000 iirc. Pretty big for the most part.
Edit:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=52821045&postcount=559
Which is pretty good.
I just hope that we can reach the $2,500,000 mark before the end of this month.
If they ever do that, then many people would just stop supporting Capcom & their products altogether, & that wouldn't be good for Capcom in general.
You think that the backlash that they received from cancelling Rockman/MegaMan games like MegaMan Universe & MegaMan Legends 3 are bad, just wait until they try to pull some crazy stunt to prevent this game from happening. It'll cause a huge shitstorm within many Rockman/MegaMan fans like us.
In your dreams.
EatinOlives
Member
Agreed. All it takes is thinking about every person involved as shown in the KS page. You can't involve all of them for $900,000. Hell, Manami Matsumae already composed the main theme.
The KS is paying for part of it. No way in hell this entire project costs only $900k.
$900k too much? $2.5 million too much? I work for the packaging company that makes boxes and inserts for Activision, Ubisoft, Konami, etc. I can tell you the packaging costs alone for the last COD and Metal Gear games cost significantly more than 900k. In fact, I think their $2.5 million goal for a retail console release is a money-loser for Comcept.
Developing and publishing good, polished, top-flight video games requires ridiculous amounts of money. Further, you have to consider the people involved in this project are all highly-paid, highly-experienced veterans in the industry. They're not two twenty-somethings in a skid row apartment working on their lone big break masterpiece. In order to make their game and in order for us to be able to play their game, they have to be able to pay their mortgages, bills, food budgets, etc. for 16 months. And that's even before you consider PR costs to encourage the press to talk about it and distributors to get stores to stock it.
You know what would be the delicious irony in all of this? If after development, in order to save face, Capcom forks over the bucks to publish the console ports. That'd be LOL right there.
Developing and publishing good, polished, top-flight video games requires ridiculous amounts of money. Further, you have to consider the people involved in this project are all highly-paid, highly-experienced veterans in the industry. They're not two twenty-somethings in a skid row apartment working on their lone big break masterpiece. In order to make their game and in order for us to be able to play their game, they have to be able to pay their mortgages, bills, food budgets, etc. for 16 months. And that's even before you consider PR costs to encourage the press to talk about it and distributors to get stores to stock it.
You know what would be the delicious irony in all of this? If after development, in order to save face, Capcom forks over the bucks to publish the console ports. That'd be LOL right there.
Aquamarine
Member
Please keep in mind that I'm not talking about big-budget ordeals.
So no Yakuza, no Final Fantasy, no Dark Souls, no Tales...
I'm talking about the REGULAR PS3 games that come out in Japan every week...the kind of titles that never make their way over to the USA.
Shogun1337
Junior Member
EVERYONE THROW IN BUCKETS OF MONEY NOW
532K already holy sweet Doctor Wily.this is the true power of megaman fanbase.
lol@Capcom
He is just mad about the Clover shut down.
lol@Capcom
Funny you thought that way, considering this:
He is just mad about the Clover shut down.
VeryGooster
Banned
Backed for $20, but I'm wondering if I can buy the soundtrack down the road. Otherwise, may bump to $40 at some point.
They already explain that in the FAQ section. Comcept will throw money in the pot also if the games gets funded by backers. He also explains it's obvious the game is going to cost more than 900k to make.
:lol:
Please do share your sources for your treasure trove of information, and exactly how all of those numbers were reached.
Hmm...I'll back this, I suppose. Even though I grew up with and love Megaman, I've kind fallen out of the series over the years (obviously due to Capcom's incompetence and neglect). Would be nice to see some actual footage, but the development team/staff behind this game sounds relatively promising. The main theme's pretty boss too. Definitely not foaming at the mouth for this yet, but it sounds like it could be pretty cool.
Hmm no because it's a digital version. They only ship a booklet and a box w/ no game if you pledge 60$ and according to my understanding the rewards are going to be done by fangamers so I doubt it's going to be that expensive.
Bomber Bob
Banned
salty?
RockmanWhore
Member
The kickstarter is only a few hours old, and it's already half-funded!
This game needs a Vita version.
Wow, I just kickstarted it with 120$, for a game I should cost 15$ at most lol. I just want that physical copy. The game better be good...
This game needs a Vita version.
Wow, I just kickstarted it with 120$, for a game I should cost 15$ at most lol. I just want that physical copy. The game better be good...
Flakster99
Member
This looks great! Pledged and added to my growing list of backed Kickstarter projects to watch.
Lucent
Member
You already know I will be doing this if they pull something like that. I've already had enough of Capcom's bad decisions. Killing off all things Mega Man. Outsourcing Devil May Cry and Lost Planet. Charging crazy prices for DLC and making lots of it. Announcing Breath of Fire for mobile. Digital only version of AA5. Closing Clover Studios.
If they tried to stop this, I would hope everyone stopped supporting Capcom altogether.
I'm gonna back this game. Who better to make a Mega Man-like game than Inafune?
No, he was saying it in a positive way.
Oh so when asked what he thought of Inafunes work (creatively), dismissing it was a complement? Infanune has done far more creative work than any corporate 'businessman' in Japan. To say he isn't also a creator smells of sour grapes.
Yeah as soon as a Vita version gets announced I'm in. It's so successful already that I'm holding out to see what exactly comes of how they will no doubt hit their stretch goals (or some of them). Even if I don't kickstart (unlikely) I'll get the game at retail at worst.
He just wants Nintendo to take him as 2nd party, then he will be stable to make anything he wants. Stability is key lol
540,000 and counting.
Kamiya has also posted photos of him and Inafune, hanging out. Like every other one of Kamiya's tweets, bleeding hearts read too much into that tweet.
looks like yesterday, Keiji Inafune stopped over to see the Yacht Club Games team
I wouldn't be surprised if the success of Shovel Knight also paved the way for this project in some respects.
Doesn't really mean anything though, resentments can run deep even with colleagues. His tweet doesn't make much sense.
But anyway this thread should be about the potentially awesome Might no 9
I hope the game is going for this
And not this
I think they are doing this mostly because of the way Kickstarter and licensing work. It's easier to fund something if it's on PC on kickstarter and you don't have to deal with licensing inflating the cost of the project.
I doubt they would do only PC games since they are a JP company first and most PC games aren't doing too hot in Japan.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Also, Kickstarters have gone way past that number. The KS I'm most interested in was Hex: Shards of Fate, which had an initial goal of $500,000, and it ended up making $2,500,000.