Satan Could Cry 5 has hit the spectacular gross sales milestone of 10 million, with Capcom pointing to the not too long ago launched Netflix anime as serving to push the online game over the road.
DMC 5 launched in Mar 2019 throughout PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and was successful with followers and critics. IGN’s Satan Could Cry 5 overview returned a 9.5. We mentioned: “Satan Could Cry 5’s trio of excellent fight kinds set a brand new excessive bar for the sequence, and its mysterious story retains issues fascinating alongside the best way.”
Six years later, Satan Could Cry 5 should go down as a blockbuster success for Capcom. “The title has garnered robust help from customers resulting from its distinctive gameplay expertise, resulting in expanded gross sales as a catalog title since its launch,” the corporate mentioned.
“Capcom supplied an much more superior story and motion components within the sport with the addition of a brand new playable character, and extra not too long ago, on April 3, 2025, the corporate launched the brand new Satan Could Cry animated sequence on Netflix, consistent with the corporate’s Single Content material A number of Utilization technique.
“The animated sequence has garnered important acclaim from world wide, and with greater than 5.3 million views it ranked fourth throughout its first week globally within the “Exhibits | English” class, whereas additionally rating within the high 10 for seven consecutive days in Japan. On account of the sport’s exhilarating motion, and resulting from 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 items in cumulative gross sales worldwide.”
Satan Could Cry 5’s success (the franchise as complete has offered greater than 33 million items because the first sport got here out in 2001), begs the query: when will Satan Could 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 within the six years since launch in 2019.
Capcom isn’t giving something away at this level, in fact, and it has so much on its plate already. Other than persevering with to work on already launched video games comparable to Monster Hunter Wilds and Road Fighter 6, it has the simply introduced Resident Evil: Requiem on the best way in addition to the re-revealed Pragmata.
However Satan Could Cry 5 is by some margin the best-selling Satan Could Cry sport, and has now cracked the highest 10 best-selling Capcom video games ever record. Dante and pals will return sooner or later. The query is, when?
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