Capcom rebooted DmC before it 'fizzled out'

Capcom wanted to reboot the Devil May Cry series before the franchise fizzled out.

Capcom producer, Motohide Eshiro, told Siliconera the reason the company wanted to take the game in a different direction.

He said: "As far as the timing is concerned, a big part of the motivation is not waiting for the series to fizzle out, but to do it while the series is still doing really well.

"We've done Devil May Cry 1-4 and they keep getting better with each iteration, but rather than waiting for things to go badly and then trying to give it a rebirth we thought it would be an interesting challenge to try to do something new with it while it's still quite viable.

"As a company, we want to challenge ourselves rather than wait until the series is not viable. Let's do it now and see what happens while it's still quite big."

Capcom released a new trailer for DmC: Devil May Cry last week. Check it out here.