Capcom's DmC: Devil May Cry the upcoming hack and slash beat 'em up video game developed by Ninja Theory for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, will be arriving late for PC gamers. The console version of Devil May Cry releases on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on January 15.
In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Capcom producer Alex Jones said that a different development team will be handling the PC version of the game and that it won't release in till after the console iteration has already launched.
"I can't give you a day and date," Jones said. "What I can say we're endeavoring to get it out as shortly after the main game as possible so there's as little a gap between those two as we can reasonably get."
The project has been outsourced to Polish quality assurance and localization studio QLOC, which has worked with Capcom port before, including Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition and Street Fighter x Tekken.
"Because it's being developed out of house by a different developer from Ninja Theory there are logistical things involved," Jones said. "But the plan is to get it out shortly after the ship date for the console version."
In the interview, Jones also confirmed that Dante would be the only playable character in Devil May Cry. His brother Virgil will not be a playable character this time around. Virgil's appearance in the game's newest trailer created speculation that he would also be playable.
"I want to be definitive," he said. "He's not playable in the game. I don't want to be coy about that and have people think they're getting one thing when they're getting another."
DmC: Devil May Cry is set in a alternate reality in the Devil May Cry series an will focus on the player character Dante, a young man in his early 20's with supernatural powers who finds himself under attack by demons.
This is Capcom's second high-profile release to be delayed on the PC, with Resident Evil 6 being the other. Are these delays proof that Capcom's PC ports do not get the same attention as its console counterparts or are the delays proof that Capcom is taking its PC ports more serious?
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