Konami knew we would hate Castlevania Judgement
When you have a franchise like this, that’s become popular in a certain type of game style and you change that so drastically, I understand the responses is going to be negative. - Iga Igarashi, Konami
Earlier in one of my E3 posts I mentioned that Konami, or Iga at least, were well aware that gamers wanted little to do with a Castlevania fighting game. Well here is the quote. The reality is that it's a lot worse though. During the Konami press conference Iga took what seemed like an apologetic tone about the game and was practically begging everyone to play and like it.
The real question is why make the game in the first place if you know this isn't what fans of the franchise want?
Possibly because investors or shareholders said it would be a great idea?
Who knows.
