DmC Devil May Cry has shot to the top of the Japanese video game chart, but as with the UK chart its position doesn't tell the whole story.
Media Create reports DmC sales of 110,429 on PS3 with the Xbox 360 version failing to chart in the Top 20. Famitsu's figures are slightly higher, putting the PS3 version at 115,438 and the Xbox edition at 5,857 copies.
However, sales of Devil May Cry 4, released in Japan on January 31, 2008 reached a combined 245,000 copies in its first week – that's more than double the total managed by Ninja Theory's so-called effort.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
Huzaifah from eXputer: "Devil May Cry 5, the latest iteration in the iconic DMC franchise by Capcom, still holds its own as a fantastic hack-and-slash in 2024."
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Food for thought, that's 250K for DMC4 BACK when the PS360 install bases were significantly smaller. If the US numbers follow the same trend, and it seems like they are, what we have here is a lesson in how to kill a brand.
well damn, isnt the whole reason for the reboot to even exist because, as said by capcom themselves "we were not satisfied with the sales of DMC4"
Well I'm calling it now. DmC will not make the return Capcom was hoping for, they angered too many original fans and not enough people defending DmC have bothered to purchase it, honestly it makes me wonder why they bothered rebooting the franchise if they are only to make less than DMC4, the 5th instalment for the original DMC cannon would probably have racked in a lot more with the proper marketing and the entire core fanbase backing it.
Just sit back and watch Capcom's PR try and talk their way out of this one, I expect we'll get the "original fans didn't give it chance" response.
Not surprising since DMC 4 was a let down compared to DMC3 & this reboot is being made by a Western Developer that changed Dante.
Speaking of sales it seems Ninja Theory's games cant catch break when it comes to sales. Heavenly Sword is their best selling title but they complained it sold so little.
Hasn't Kinect taught us anything? Don't underestimate just how quick western audiences are to open their wallets. I'd imagine Capcom was expecting Japanese sales to take a little hit seeing how they replaced a character many Japanese people considered cool with someone who has a lot less appeal over there.
While I'd personally love this game to fall flat on it's face sales wise, however sadly I think the vocal people against the game are the minority.