I'd love for Capcom to end up doing both lines, DMC5 for the old fans ala classic Megaman/X/Zero/ZX, maybe finish eth storyline(or what sembulance of one it has), and DmC2 as the continuiation of a spin off series ala EXE/Star Force as a seperate continuity like it is intended as. But teh returns really may only justify one of them by the time the Fiscal counts finish. To be fair, it's been 5 years since DMC4, and classic DMC has been out of the limelight for a while. With all the backlash DMC4 got, and the fact almost the entire team left Capcom save for a few stranglers that really want to move on to other projects, and like hell are they gonn'a grovel to Kamiya to handle it, a reboot with outsourcing was the only option, a reboot THEY dictated, then almost left NT to take the flack for when NT was original going to just make DMC5. Did NT make some bad publicity calls? yeah, a few, saying that Dante would get laughed out of a bar without really giving the context didn't help, but honestly, I read back over the interviews. Tameem never said "Old Dante isn't cool, ours is LOADS better", he stated that what was considering cool back when DMC1 came out may not be as effective now. And honestly, DMC4's Dante wasn't cool, he was a damn joke, and to perfectly honest, if he's our frame of reference, YES, he'd be laughed at for walking into a bar like that. I honestly don't wann'a go back to that. Would I like to see Nero again? yeah, i see potential in the character once you get the intent off of "it's young Dante with a purple coat." Would I like to see a continuation or maybe conclusion to teh class story before heading full steam into the new universe? I admit, yes. Some resolution to Nero, to DMC2's ending, to actually trying to fix the holes in the plot you could drive the DEATH STAR through, yeah, it would be nice. But shoudl we expect that to follow right up after the Reboot and resume everything?
No. Newcomers that came in with the new game will be so lost, they'll complain about nothing at all making sense with the plot even more than with DMC4. Considering how much money Capcom blew on DMC4 and then ended up half-assing it, I'd say cut the budgets back, and get it back to the core that made everything so fun in DMC classic for one last blow out as a finale of that series storyline. Maybe even give some connection of that universe giving birth to the new one somehow, to explain the seperation in dimensions.
But to just abandon all the work NT put into DmC and go right back to the rehashing that would be a quick fix DMC5...no. I'd rather DmC2: The Black Angel