For a franchise as long-running, iconic and inspiring as Mega Man has been, its sales numbers have been everything but that. In fact, the sales numbers have long been middling. Chalk it up to the large number of titles, or the fact that some were produced in record-setting time, but Mega Man hasn't always had the sales numbers to back up its decades-long legacy.
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However, via new sales numbers distributed by Capcom, it appears that the Blue Bomber has some celebrating to do. As first spotted by Rockman Corner, a Mega Man fan website, Mega Man 11 has been revealed to have topped two million units in worldwide sales, making it the single best-selling entry in the franchise.
The information comes via Capcom's own Platinum Titles section, where it lists the sales figures for its titles. There, Mega Man 11 has risen to be the company's 65th best-selling title, ahead of the original Legacy Collection (1.60), Mega Man 2 (1.51), X Legacy Collection (1.40), Battle Network 4 (1.35), X (1.16) and 3 (1.08)....
