I think this applies for all of us here...but there was an interview with Capcom USA President Christian Svensson and Community Manager Brett Elston .
This maybe transcends this thread a bit...but it's certainly related, and goes into much more Megaman stuff in general. I knew the gist of how he went to them at EVO and handed them the game, but I didn't know that this was all Capcom USA, which is kinda funny...
But yeah, I thought this was the article but I didn't see after skimming through it (I've been reading too many articles lately x.x) but basically part of the hang-up for the Megaman series is they're not sure where to go with it, and just look at our few comments in here. Soeroah wants a new Battle Network, I know Pie enjoys the NES Megamans, Kerreth you mentioned 16 bit, and I'm in the similar boat...the first 4 X games were my favorite, though I also like the Zero and ZX series. I think that may be the problem, there are so many different types of Megaman games out there, there's no way to make one that would please everyone. Personally I don't see how this is THAT much of a problem since I think any of the types would sell just fine...but I understand their confusion =P