Hasn't Inafune been working on other titles during the production of Mighty No.9? I'm not 100% on it just recall hearing something a while ago.
Also it sounds like they're suffering the delays because of going with some out of date networking method which isn't supported anymore? fairly bad idea really if they ever intended on making a sequel they'd either have to go in and do more modification to an even further obsolete system or else re work the whole networking portion of their game around a new engine. Sounds like they went for a fast saving early on and it costs them now.
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