I know a lot of you were looking forward to Mega Man on WiiWare this week, but as some of you may have noticed by now, he's a no show on the Wii Shop Channel update. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, folks, but he won't miraculously pop up anytime this week either.

Chris "Kramez" Kramer of the Capcom Unity blogs apologized for the situation on their forums, and explained that:

We jumped the gun a bit by announcing what we thought was the release date for Mega Man on VC based on code global submissions to Nintendo.

Sorry about that, we just got swept up in all the excitement generated by Mega Man 9. Nintendo is gatekeeper of Virtual Console, and as such, they determine the schedule of releases.They've got a lot of games to balance and sometimes they have to move titles around.

[...] As to the blog post that announced the date and then mysteriously disappeared, that was done by someone new to Unity and the blogosphere in general. We've now set a policy internally that if we post something and it's wrong or the infor changes that we will update the original post rather than try to nuke it from space. As we all know, there is no rewind/erase button for the internets ;)

The same thing happened to Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People recently. I hope Nintendo will find a way to resolve the update schedules of games soon, but till then, keep checking back for the Wii Shop Channel updates.

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