One more detail, specifically with reference to how we end up at DmC, is the dissolution of Clover Studio in 2007. So Capcom was looking to outsource all but the very biggest of its in-house brands, and through this strategy also make those brands more appealing to western audiences. Is that a Classic Dante skin in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? There's also a DMC1 Dante skin and a selection of 'new' Dante and Vergil skins. An unmitigated failure, however, was outsourcing Lost Planet 3 to Spark Unlimited (Capcom has only itself to blame for this one). Pause for a moment on that final detail, the acquisition. Dead Rising was developed in-house, directed by Keiji Inafune, and established a foundation strong enough that the two subsequent sequels were made by Blue Castle (now acquired and re-named Capcom Vancouver). The first is that Capcom had experience in outsourcing franchises to western developers, but in the switch from the PS2 to the PS3 generation of hardware this became a strategy.

There are several major factors behind DmC being outsourced. Capcom is still one of the most important third-party console developers around, and an increasingly PC-friendly one to boot. Companies that rose to prominence in the 8- and 16-bit eras, like Hudson Soft and Irem, are long gone. One of the problems faced by big Japanese publishers and developers is maintaining a foothold in the western market. In the years between 2008's Devil May Cry 's release of DmC, something had changed at Capcom. And finally the fact this is a western reboot of an eastern game. Then there's Ninja Theory's role, an independent developer buckling to the market in some small way by working on wholly publisher-owned IP. It is curious that Capcom, first of all, one of the industry's greatest fighting game specialists outsourced a flagship fighting game to an overseas studio. But this release provides an opportunity to reflect on DmC with something we don't often have - hindsight. This is not a straight-up review of DmC: Definitive Edition, though Eurogamer's original review is here, it remains a very good game indeed, and we'll come back to the details later. This switch was much-maligned by series fans, persistently and often unfairly. In 2008 the series did not seem in bad shape - and then the next Devil May Cry was DmC, a reboot developed by the Cambridge studio Ninja Theory. This seems like a straightforward proposition, but what is Devil May Cry? It's a third-person fighting game that more or less invented a genre, then with Devil May Cry 3 raised the bar once more and, with Devil May Cry 4, had its biggest-selling entry (2.9 million).

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