“Just lately, on April 3, 2025, the corporate launched the brand new Satan Could Cry animated sequence on Netflix,” stated Capcom’s press launch, “according to the corporate’s Single Content material A number of Utilization technique,” which sees the corporate adapting its IP into reveals and movies to assist bolster gaming gross sales.
The hit animated sequence helped push Satan Could Cry 5 previous 10 million gross sales, stated Capcom, due to international acclaim and over 5.3 million views in its debut week. It’s additionally value noting that one of many writer’s frequent Golden Week gross sales (there’s actually one other one reside on the time of publishing) on Steam drove a 438.54% spike in DMC 5’s participant rely, peaking at 14,645, a formidable feat for a five-year-old title.
Satan Could Cry 5 launched on March 8, 2019, and was a bona fide stumble on launch due to its indulgently fashionable fight and badass enjoyable. Coupled with a banger just like the Resident Evil 2 remake in the identical yr, it led to Capcom USA chief government Kiichiro Urata flashing a victory signal and declaring, “Capcom is again.”
