 He also believed that pushing for the creation of a "Mega Man" in the style of the original "would be quickly criticized for things like being simplistic, outdated, or too expensive", thus making it too difficult to develop such games in the current climate.Inafune cited the rise of retrogaming services like Nintendo's Virtual Console for allowing the development team to put together "Mega Man 9".Not only does the game carry the gameplay and storyline elements of older games, "Mega Man 9" is a return to the series' roots, as the graphics and music resemble how their original games looked and sounded on the NES's 8-bit hardware.