EA talks potential Dead Space Extraction sequel, sales, and port of the original game for Wii

December 22nd, 2009 Posted in News, Posted by Valay, Wii

All of this information comes from Steve Papoutsis, who is the producer of Dead Space Extraction…

“The Dead Space Fiction is massive, I mean super duper deep. There are tons of areas to explore in the time frame before Extraction. We hint at some of the stuff in the past in Extraction *SPOILER* specifically the mysterious resource wars. So there is a lot to pull from. Not to mention the discovery of the original Black Marker.” – Steve Papoutsis, Dead Space Extraction producer

“Visceral Games and EA are both very proud of Extraction. We set out to create a high quality Wii game and we feel we nailed just that. Everyone that has seen or played Extraction at the company has high praise for the quality of the game. The team are very proud of what we were able to accomplish with Extraction.”

“I think it is very possible to port the original game. The biggest thing would be making the right compromises and having enough time to do justice to the original. Just to remind everyone another certain Survival Horror game that was ported to the Wii took almost 6 years of development before showing up on that system. So it’s not as easy as flipping a switch to make those types of things happen. Even when you are starting out with a game that runs on very similar hardware to begin with.”

Something tells me that we won’t see another Dead Space game on Wii. Well, not for awhile at least. The game has gotten off to a very slow start in the U.S. in terms of sales, but I’m hoping it’ll continue to sell over time. But for now, I don’t see EA taking another gamble with a Dead Space game on Wii.

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  1. 6 Responses to “EA talks potential Dead Space Extraction sequel, sales, and port of the original game for Wii”

  2. By joemoreheroes on Dec 22, 2009

    If the origanal game was possible, why didn’t they just give the wii something like that. MP3 enormously bigger than the original DS. I gues EA just wanted to cash in on Capcom’s success with RE on the wii.

  3. By bob on Dec 22, 2009

    dead space extraction deserved better sales

  4. By CoffeewithGames on Dec 22, 2009

    @joemoreheroes: Exactly.
    When Steve Papoutsis said, “The biggest thing would be making the right compromises and having enough time to do justice to the original.”
    I’m thinking, “You just admitted you could have ported the original over, but instead somebody made a decision to give Wii owners ANOTHER onrails shooter, with no advertising.”

    @Valay:
    “I don’t see EA taking another gamble with a Dead Space game on Wii.” The only gamble they made was making a game for the Wii and not advertising it and expecting it to sell.

  5. By Captain N on Dec 23, 2009

    Just port the original game, that’s what Wii owners wanted from the begining, since its possible just do it !!!

  6. By Captain N on Dec 23, 2009

    And what game took 6 years to show up on Wii? I really hope he isn’t refering to RE4!

  7. By Jason Tanner on Dec 23, 2009

    Porting the original to the Wii, sounds exactly like what I was getting at in my review of the game. http://wiivolutionnow.com/deadspaceextraction/

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