(*10*)DMC 5 launched in Mar 2019 throughout PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and was successful with followers and critics. IGN’s Devil May Cry 5 overview returned a 9.5. We stated: “Devil May Cry 5’s trio of excellent fight types set a brand new excessive bar for the sequence, and its mysterious story retains issues fascinating alongside the means.”
(*10*)Six years later, Devil May Cry 5 should go down as a blockbuster success for Capcom. “The title has garnered sturdy assist from customers attributable to its distinctive gameplay expertise, resulting in expanded gross sales as a catalog title since its launch,” the firm stated.
(*10*)“Capcom offered an much more superior story and motion components in the sport with the addition of a brand new playable character, and extra just lately, on April 3, 2025, the firm launched the new Devil May Cry animated sequence on Netflix, in keeping with the firm’s Single Content material A number of Utilization technique.
(*10*)”The animated sequence has garnered essential acclaim from round the world, and with greater than 5.3 million views it ranked fourth throughout its first week globally in the “Reveals | English” class, whereas additionally rating in the prime 10 for seven consecutive days in Japan. On account of the sport’s exhilarating motion, and attributable to efforts to boost model consciousness by leveraging the title past the scope of video video games, together with tv diversifications, the title has now exceeded 10 million models in cumulative gross sales worldwide.”
(*10*)Devil May Cry 5’s success (the franchise as complete has offered greater than 33 million models since the first sport got here out in 2001), begs the query: when will Devil May Cry 6 be launched? It appears inevitable that one other sport might be greenlit, if it hasn’t already, given DMC5 has offered 10 million in the six years since launch in 2019.
(*10*)Capcom isn’t giving something away at this level, after all, and it has quite a bit on its plate already. Other than persevering with to work on already launched video games akin to Monster Hunter Wilds and Road Fighter 6, it has the simply introduced Resident Evil: Requiem on the means in addition to the re-revealed Pragmata.
(*10*)However Devil May Cry 5 is by some margin the best-selling Devil May Cry sport, and has now cracked the prime 10 best-selling Capcom video games ever listing. Dante and pals will return sooner or later. The query is, when?
(*10*)Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.