Devil May Cry 5 Passes Impressive Sales Milestone

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Three years on, it seems Devil May Cry 5’s popularity has yet to really wane, if its latest sales achievement is any indication. According to Capcom, the latest entry in its demon-slaying hack-and-slash action series has now surpassed 6 million copies sold. For a bit of context, DMC 5 hit 5 million copies sold back in April this year, meaning a million more copies have been sold in just the last six months. Not bad for a three-and-a-half year-old game.

When it first debuted in 2019, DMC 5 revitalized a franchise that had been stuck in limbo for a few years. Capcom had attempted to take it in a different direction with Ninja Theory’s reboot DMC: Devil May Cry in 2013, to mixed critical and commercial results. DMC 5 would ultimately ignore the reboot and return to the original versions of Dante and friends, in the process providing some of the most critically-acclaimed hack-and-slash gameplay in years.

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And now the game has reached 6 million copies sold, further cementing its status as the best-selling DMC game to date. Capcom shared the news, along with new artwork of the game’s cast, in a brief Twitter message thanking the fans for their support. It’s certainly helped that these days Devil May Cry 5 has gotten pretty cheap, as the standard price of the base game has dropped to $30 across all platforms, and sales bring that down to as low as $10 fairly frequently.

With how brief Capcom’s tweet is, the specifics of the new sales milestone aren’t clear, like how many copies of DMC 5’s current-gen Special Edition contributed to the grand total, for example. What might frustrate fans more, though, is that there is no mention or tease for what could be in store for the