This was some BS:
Akiko Ito: As you may or may not know, Mega Man isn’t selling as well as we would like overseas. It is selling very well in Japan, though. We’re not focused on one territory anymore with Mega Man Universe.
haha! what BS!
For the longest time, Capcom only cared about Japanese sales, and While the games sold very well over here, they sold poorly in Japan, which was at the time, more interested with Pokemon. (which is why games like Battle Network and Star Force did well there, they are of the same RPG collect em all type) ZX sold well because it was innovative, introducing the Metroidvania interconnected map style. ZXA did not sell that well over there. So we never got a ZX3.
Suuure. Go ahead Cappy. Put the blame on the foreigners.
theres a reason why recently Capcom has started to care about overseas sales with games like Universe, which is even using the overrseas name.
Because they realized that otherwise, megaman would not survive if they only looked at japan sales.