Mega Man Legends 3 (Cancelled Nintendo 3DS Video Game and Unreleased Prototype; Early 2010s)

On September 29, 2010, at a Nintendo Press Conference regarding the Nintendo 3DS, a brand new installment to the Mega Man Legends series, Mega Man Legends 3, was announced for the Nintendo 3DS. More information about the game was announced at the New York Comic Con in October of that year including two new characters: Aero and Barrett. However, on October 29, 2010, Keiji Inafune, who co-designed the Mega Man character, announced that he would be leaving Capcom with the intention of "starting his life over" after 23 years of working with Capcom. With Inafune leaving Capcom, he no longer owned any of his creations and was not allowed to help the company work on Mega Man Legends 3, or create any new installments to the franchise, even if he wished to. In Spite of Inafune leaving the company, they announced that they would be making a special application on the Nintendo 3DS' App-Store like program called the "Nintendo eShop", that would be called "Mega Man Legends 3: Prototype Version" that would include 10 Missions. All of them would serve as a prologue to the game's story, and would all have Barrett as the playable character that would be released in 2011. However, on July 18, 2011, Capcom announced that Mega Man Legends 3 and the Prototype Version had been cancelled and stated that both Mega Man Legends 3 and the Prototype Version would never be finished nor released. Despite many denied requests by Inafune, to finish the game. GamesRadar (a gaming website) said that the only person who played both games was Chris Hoffman. A journalist who worked for the now defunct Nintendo Power Magazine.