I pretend this sentence makes any sense.
The fanbase split itself because it's full of petty, juvenile, and self-absorbed chuckleheads that felt slighted by nothing or defended the game too extremely.
Alternatively, if the sentence doesn't make sense, then learn to read.
Actually such statement simply doesn't exist
Oh it does, it most certainly does. I wanna say it was Itsuno himself who said it in an interview, but it could have been someone else on the dev team, off the top of my head this late at night I can't quite remember who. Either way, it was explicitly said that DmC was pretty much the last thing Capcom wanted to do with the frachise to do...whatever. Gauge interest or something.
Similarly, Itsuno doesn't have all the sway to just make a game if he wants to. He needs funds, funds that can only be given by higher ups. Learn to business.
? I've only heard this as conjecture on this forum, not as official statements or anything. Any proof?
The proof is out there (*X-Files theme plays*). Anyway, I read the article some time ago, before DmC released, it does exist somewhere, but I didn't bother committing the site to memory, and it's just buried like so many other articles since the game released, what with all the discussions surrounding the game that continued. If I had all the time in the world, I would get to writing my next book, and then in my off time also look for the article itself. However, I do not, as I am attending university. If you put in the right criteria, it should come up within a few search result pages.
All I know is... right after DmC failed, Itsuno said he wanted to make DMC5, lol. So, what, he had no ideas for a new DMC in the past but *just like that* got a great idea for DMC5 conveniently right after DmC bombed? Doesn't seem likely to me.
He's probably wanted to do another game in the franchise since DMC4, then did DmC, and wants to continue with DMC5 because why not? "I could return to classic series with all I've learned from DmC" he could be thinking, as they used DmC to test a lot of things they had wanted to do with the series for a long time - like getting rid of a hard lock, which they wanted to get rid of when they started DMC3, but couldn't commit the time to reconfiguring every damn thing about the system at the time.
Anyway, it would be really weird if Capcom really had no ideas for DMC after DMC4. DMC2 was created out of nowhere with Capcom having barely any material to use. Same with DMC4. The series has always been all over the place, but still got sequels and even a slight retcon (DMC3), so I don't see why DMC4 would suddenly be their last idea. Also, plenty of forum-goers have come up with some good ideas, so if Capcom suddenly ran out of ideas, that'd be a fail.
It's not really that they "had no ideas for DMC after DMC4," it's that there wasn't enough internal interest with which to give a game the green light until Inafune had suggested trying an occidental approach. We also have to consider that the people who make up the DMC dev teams were also working on other projects, so it's not like they had all this time fomr DMC4 to DmC that they could have been brainstorming. Itsuno was working on Dragon's Dogma, after all.