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Capcom's Hideaki Itsuno has revealed that he 'really wanted' to make a sequel to 2013's Ninja Theory-developed DmC: Devil May Cry.
Speaking with VG247 at the Tokyo Game Show, Itsuno-san said that DmC: Devil May Cry 2 was on his wish list before production of Devil May Cry 5 had even started. However, he noted that as the Japanese team was made up of some devs who didn't get to work on DmC, it made sense that they instead worked on a successor to Devil May Cry 4.
'I really wanted to make a DmC: Devil May Cry 2, after the first one,' he said. 'I was really pumped up to do it, and then that didn’t happen. So… when it came time to make a new game, we said, alright, let’s make Devil May Cry 5.'
'We had these people that didn’t work on DmC and people that did. Because we had these two sides mixing, it was like alright, we’re going to make Devil May Cry 5 – it’s not going to be a sequel to DmC, but we definitely want to do what we can to take what we learned from that game too.'
'One thing, if you think about it… it probably wouldn’t make sense to have these guys make a DmC 2,' continued Itsuno. 'That’s something that Ninja Theory should collaborate with Capcom on, y’know? It would be different – it would lose something if we tried to do that only in Osaka. So it really made sense that we’d go to a sequel to DMC4. It’s something that the people in Osaka have more of a frame of reference for.'
Devil May Cry 5 is scheduled for release on March 8, 2019 for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One. It features three playable characters – Dante, Nero, and V, – and oddly enough has microtransactions.
We're big fans of DmC: Devil May Cry at VideoGamer, and would have definitely been up for a full-blown sequel. Oh well.
