Capcom owns the Mega Man IP, but much to the dismay of fans, hasn't done much with it since Inafune left the company in 2010.

9, a thinly veiled successor to one of his most famous titles, Mega Man. During a panel at PAX Prime this weekend, Inafune announced a campaign to fund Mighty No. Inafune is embracing one such option in Kickstarter. And there are many options that Japanese independent developers can pursue to gain more control, to own their own IP, et cetera.' 'Ultimately, it's probably gotten worse than when I was talking about it before,' Inafune told the site. Although it appeared recently that he might have been softening his position on the matter (or at least being less vocal about it), the former Capcom executive and Comcept founder told GameSpot this weekend that was not the case. In recent years, Keiji Inafune has been critical of the Japanese game development scene, saying his fellow developers need to take more cues from their Western counterparts to compete in today's industry.

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