DMC is certainly a lot better than I was expecting...and is indeed a worthy addition to the series (I honestly thought it was gonna suck big time!)....but the only 'recent' capcom console game I've played is re5 and, yes, I prefer dmc to it by a large margin (Incidentally, I prefer re:revelations but it's not a console game-yet-so I can't include it)
ps I preferred BAYONETTA to any dmc game, except maybe the first.