A new Dead Space game will probably never happen because there’s just not enough demand, says former writer and producer Chuck Beaver.
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Survival horror game Dead Space was released in 2008 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Sales started slow but it went on to sell over a million copies and two sequels alongside a handful of spin-offs followed. A fourth Dead Space was planned but the project fell apart following the closure of game developers Visceral Games in 2017.
In 2023, ten years after Dead Space 3, EA released a full remake of the original Dead Space with many fans hoping a new game would follow. “Dead Space 4 that would make a lot of sense [following the remake],” said composer Trevor Gureckis.
However after years of silence Chuck Beaver, who wrote and produced Dead Space and the 2011 sequel, has said a new game is unlikely to happen.
The “numbers just aren’t there,” he said on the FVRV podcast (via IGN), explaining that a new game would need to sell more than 10million copies to make a profit. “Any of the Resident Evil [games] are selling around seven million [copies], that’s a pretty good number,” Beaver continued. “But companies now are looking for the next Fortnite. They need something that is a perennial moneymaker. A single-player package game with no live-service offering is just a dinosaur fossil of a business model.”
“It wasn’t like it didn’t get a run out of it [but] it’s disappointing that we can’t take a beloved franchise to its logical end.”
Last year co-creator Glen Schofield told IGN that he was “ready to go” with Dead Space 4 but publishers EA weren’t “interested”. However, following the sale of EA, Schofield started “making calls” to try and get the game made. “I think there’s an opportunity”.
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