Mega Man Legends will not come to PlayStation Network

The first two Mega Man Legends games, respectively released in 1998 and 2000, will not come to the PlayStation Network as PSone Classics. Capcom USA VP Christian Svensson told a fan during an Ask Capcom Live Q&A session this week that due to property infringement issues, it is impossible for the titles to show up on the service.

“For example, there are games in our catalog that have logos or other things that would be identifiable as other people’s I.P. without permission, and either due to historical litigation or fear of potential future litigation, sometimes we aren’t allowed to use those,” said Svensson.

“Other things, like for example you had voice work in the game, but the voice actor… Within the scope of the contract that was there, either the contract is lapsed in terms of its term or the contract never defined that digital distribution was an allowable use for their work etcetera. So voice acting, scores, soundtracks, middleware contracts all have to have the same stuff there.

“In some cases, the company that we did things with is gone, but that doesn’t mean that somebody doesn’t own the rights and couldn’t come after us, so in the name of having to protect ourselves, sometimes these things are not going to be able to be put up again, and in the case of the emulations, we can’t make changes to the content, so there’s no way to just sort of remove it and just have it be up there.

“The net result is, in the case of Legends, unfortunately Legends isn’t going to be able to be up there; it failed an I.P. sweep and a contract check.”

There’s always eBay, Legends fans.

Thanks, Siliconera.