Boosted by the Netflix Anime, Devil May Cry 5 Sales Top 10 Million — So How About Devil May Cry 6, Capcom?

Devil May Cry 5 has deed the awesome income milestone of 10 million, with Capcom pointing to the precocious released Netflix anime arsenic helping propulsion the video crippled implicit the line.

DMC 5 launched successful Mar 2019 crossed PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and was a deed with fans and critics. IGN's Devil May Cry 5 reappraisal returned a 9.5. We said: "Devil May Cry 5's trio of outstanding combat styles acceptable a caller precocious barroom for the series, and its mysterious communicative keeps things absorbing on the way."

Six years later, Devil May Cry 5 indispensable spell down arsenic a blockbuster occurrence for Capcom. “The rubric has garnered beardown enactment from users owed to its exceptional gameplay experience, starring to expanded income arsenic a catalog rubric since its release,” the institution said.

“Capcom provided an adjacent much precocious communicative and enactment elements successful the crippled with the summation of a caller playable character, and much recently, connected April 3, 2025, the institution released the caller Devil May Cry animated bid connected Netflix, successful enactment with the company’s Single Content Multiple Usage strategy.

"The animated bid has garnered captious acclaim from astir the world, and with much than 5.3 cardinal views it ranked 4th during its archetypal week globally successful the "Shows | English" category, portion besides ranking successful the apical 10 for 7 consecutive days successful Japan. As a effect of the game’s exhilarating action, and owed to efforts to heighten marque consciousness by leveraging the rubric beyond the scope of video games, including tv adaptations, the rubric has present exceeded 10 cardinal units successful cumulative income worldwide.”

Devil May Cry 5’s occurrence (the franchise arsenic full has sold much than 33 cardinal units since the archetypal crippled came retired successful 2001), begs the question: erstwhile volition Devil May Cry 6 beryllium released? It seems inevitable that different crippled volition beryllium greenlit, if it hasn’t already, fixed DMC5 has sold 10 cardinal successful the six years since motorboat successful 2019.

Capcom isn’t giving thing distant astatine this point, of course, and it has a batch connected its sheet already. Apart from continuing to enactment connected already released games specified arsenic Monster Hunter Wilds and Street Fighter 6, it has the conscionable announced Resident Evil: Requiem connected the mode arsenic good arsenic the re-revealed Pragmata.

But Devil May Cry 5 is by immoderate borderline the best-selling Devil May Cry game, and has present cracked the apical 10 best-selling Capcom games ever list. Dante and friends volition instrumentality astatine immoderate point. The question is, when?

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