Mighty No. 9 $4 Million Kickstarter Stretch Goal Ports Canceled

Mighty No. 9 represented Mega Man artist Keiji Inafune’s quest to revive—with the help of millions raised from dedicated fans—the classic series that was then languishing under Capcom’s stewardship. Results were often delayed and usually quite poor. The promised ports for 3DS and PlayStation Vita never appeared. It only took over a decade for Amazon to finally cancel pre-orders for them.

“It’s All Over” Stuart Gipp recently published on Bluesky along with a screenshot of the Amazon UK cancellation notice. “Due to out-of-stock items, we may not be able to receive the next item in your order,” the message reads. “We have canceled the item and apologize for the inconvenience.” The order in question was for the 3DS version. Mighty No. 9 posted February 16, 2022 “The Mighty No. NEIN!” one user replied.

Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter was announced at PAX back in 2013 and quickly reached its initial crowdfunding goal of $900,000. The final goal of $4 million ensured that it would appear on the 3DS and Vita in addition to the PC and console versions that were due out in 2015. delayed several times and arrived a year later.

The Inafune-led Comcept team that created the game was purchased by Level-5 in 2017. The studio blamed this on the delay in handheld ports, but promised they would still appear. “They are not being cancelled, we are still in the porting process,” the message says. Note for sponsors only published in June of the same year. “The port had to be delayed for some time due to delays in other versions and recent changes we made to Comcept.”

The ports were actually subcontracted to Abstraction Games, but investigation carried out Destructoid it turned out that no work was actually carried out on them. In 2018, Abstraction CEO Ralph Egas described it as “a deal that we had to agree to on very short notice due to the requirements of the Kickstarter campaign, and the portable platform version being a difficult target, etc.” while simultaneously blaming the port problems on a lack of timely communication and Comcept’s failure to provide source code just months before the desired launch. “At the time, I thought it was a great opportunity, but risky.”

A group called Engine Software took over control of the ports after Abstraction Games backed down, and that was the last time anyone publicly heard of their status. Meanwhile Inafune started selling NFTs in 2022. He is still listed as a producer on the upcoming life simulation RPG Level 5. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time.

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