24 May 2008
Ferry

Devil May Cry 5 on Capcom’s mind. Devil May Cry 4 record sales of 2 million make plans all but certain

Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi said back at E3 2007 that he wanted to make Devil May Cry 5 if Capcom let him. This week Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto announced in a press release that Capcom’s fiscal year 2008 sales increased to over 83 billion Yen ($806 million), in part thanks to Devil May Cry 4’s record sales of over 2 million units worldwide since its early February 2008 release, making it the fastest selling Devil May Cry game so far and taking the entire series from 7 to 9 million sold*. It now seems all but certain Capcom wants a sequel with Mr. Tsujimoto closing off the PR by saying “We hope to continue meeting and exceeding the expectations of gamers with our dedication to developing solid titles for the best gaming platforms available.”

To quote Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi’s words from last year: “Continuing the storyline is always possible. However, we do work under a corporate system, so unless Capcom gives us the green light to go ahead and continue on with releasing Devil May Cry 5, 6, 11, whatnot. It’s totally up to them.

However, personally I would like to continue with Devil May Cry and create more and more games for this franchise. Devil May Cry 4 has turned out to be a very cool-looking stylish game for those that have a PS3 or a [Xbox] 360. If you don’t buy Devil May Cry 4 you would think ‘Why didn’t I buy it?’ There’s no worth of having a PS3 or [Xbox] 360 without Devil May Cry 4. That’s the kind of game it’s going to turn out to be.”

Watch the full Gametrailers interview on video:

Maybe in the hack and slash, action game sequel they can explain the story behind the Devil Bringer!

Picture courtesy of VGboxart

* Devil May Cry series sales as of March 17, 2009:
Devil May Cry 1 sold 2.16 million
Devil May Cry 2 sold 1.7 million
Devil May Cry 3 sold 1.3 million
Devil May Cry 4 sales are at 2.2 million

2 May 2009 17:42
gvidzix

Devil May Cry 3th and 4th are the best, but still the 4th owns the 3th.
I love these games, and please let the 5th be on PC too.

2 May 2009 22:17
alix

oh yaaaa man , u guys are totally getting a hang of my feelings rightnow by telling me you guys are going to come out Mr.5 for Devil May Cry , i have my every own record in DMC 1,2,3 nevertheless 4 .

Dude , this is totally going to rock off my head out of my neck.
Afcourse for pc too

3 May 2009 12:37
Artimese

Yeah, 5th shud be for PC 100%, i love the PC controls its soooo much easier compaired to ps3 or xbox, go DMC5!

4 May 2009 14:45
Abaker

I think 3 was really more solid than 4 seeing as they went back to 1 to get Dante’s control mechanics when the controls were so much more sophisticated in the 3rd. Dante was just lacking any real moves that would have been able to capitalize on the style change mechanic, in otherwords, the made Dante’s play style stale so that Nero would look a lot better in comparison. I feel that if they’re going to keep Nero than they better give him more than just one sword and give him some sort of style mechanic. Something to spice it up because I played through 3 at least 6 times before I got bored and I didn’t bother going through 4 more than 1 and a half times.

5 May 2009 01:01
Jesston

I like 4 better than 5, because Nero is really awesome and his attitude rockS!!!

JEsston
Isabela City, Basilan Philippines

6 May 2009 09:04
AndyDick

whatever you say Jesston =))
anyway I liked dmc3 more because the gameplay(in most areas) had more depth then in dmc4! I just hope dmc5 brings more variety, skills, weapons, more playable characters and costumes and ofc a great story (with some explanations preferably)

6 May 2009 12:29
bob

And the Wii!

7 May 2009 02:47
ShotMeInTheHead

make it online lol….^^
the gameplay was totally cool…

dmc online….lol ^^
style change to class…

7 May 2009 08:38
Sakudon

no just keep it on ps3 but go deeper and harder on the dante vs nero beef

13 May 2009 10:47
mcjakeqcool

No make it 360 exlucive but go deeper and harder on the dante vs nero beef. mcjakeqcool