Former DMC Boss Left Capcom Before Getting Stuck “Making Devil May Cry 6 Or 7”

Last year, video game director and designer Hideaki Itsuno ended his three-decade run with Capcom after guiding numerous franchises, including Devil May Cry. Now, Itsuno has revealed that one of the reasons he left his former company is that he didn’t want to get bogged down making the same titles he did before.

Itsuno told VGC that Lightspeed’s offer to let him create a new AAA game was too good to pass up, and he felt that it was his “last chance” to challenge himself.

“For Capcom, creating Devil May Cry and Dragon’s Dogma sequels is the top priority, and keeping in mind that making a game takes four or five years, this might be my last big opportunity … Before you [realize it], you are working on making Devil May Cry 6 or 7. It’s not like I don’t want to make them, I do. But it’s hard to balance the time it takes with the personal satisfaction of making them. And with Devil May Cry 5 and Dragon’s Dogma 2, I already did what I wanted to make.”

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