Street Fighter and Mega Man producer Yoshiki Okamoto has said that – outside of Nintendo itself – hardly anyone was really turning a massive profit with NES games.
Capcom almost immediately established itself as arguably the best third party publisher right away in the early years of console. Outside of Nintendo itself, there's no publisher that defined the NES quite as much as Capcom did with games like DuckTales, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and the six Mega Man games released for it. But according to the prolific former Capcom producer, the company never actually turned a profit until the advent of the CD era.
