Knowing capcom, they'd mess it all up with making new Dante act like DMC4 Dante as to say "Look! He's Dante now!" Pretty pathetic way to win fans back while thinking you can keep the new game's fans.
DmC dante has his own "swag" (it took a lot for me t say that). like clark kent from smallville or peter parker from the ultimate spider-man. having capcom try to make a DmC game is like richard donner trying to direct a smallville movie/tv series, or stan lee and steve ditko do an issue of ultimate spider-man. it wouldn't work. they're the same character but at the same time they're completely different in their own respective rights