EA Turned Down Dead Space 4 Proposal from Glen Schofield - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2025 / 4,907 Views
Dead Space series creator Glen Schofield, creative director Bret Robbins, and animation director Christopher Stone in an interview with Dan Allen Gaming on YouTube revealed they approached Electronic Arts to develop Dead Space 4, however, the publisher rejected the offer.
We tried actually, you know, the three of us yeah, we tried Dead Space 4," said Schofield (via VideoGamesChronicle).
Stone added, "All three of us sat there and wanted to do it."
Schofield said the discussions took play earlier this year and EA told them they were not interested.
"Well we didn’t go too deep, they just said no, we’re not interested right now, we appreciate it, blah blah blah, and you know, we know who to talk to, so we didn’t go take it any further, and we respected their opinion you know, they know their numbers and what they have to ship and all that," said Schofield.
Stone added, "The industry is in a weird place right now. People are really hesitant to take chances on things, so you’ve got to you know, take it with a grain of salt, who knows, maybe one day, I think we’d all love to do it."
"Yeah, we’ve got some ideas," Schofield stated.
A remake of the original Dead Space released in January 2023. It was developed by Motive Studio and published by Electronic Arts.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Fuck EA
EA did not seem to be impressed by the sales numbers on Dead Space remake. Not only are we hearing they turned down this pitch for Dead Space 4, but we've also heard that they cancelled an in-development remake of Dead Space 2 at EA Motive after EA was unimpressed by Dead Space remake's sales numbers. Seems like the series is well and truly dead now unfortunately.
There was never a dead space remake 2. that got instantly debunked by jason schreier and ign after EA denied it.
As I recall Schreier said they considered both Dead Space 2 remake and a sequel to Dead Space 1 remake that would follow a new storyline instead of the one from Dead Space 2, but neither idea was greenlit by EA due to EA being unhappy with Dead Space remake sales numbers and EA wanting Motive focusing on their Iron Man game and assisting DICE with the next Battlefield.
It's true that they were focusing on iron man and battlefield. but that was always the plan. there wass never a deadspace 2 anything at any meaningful stage of development
Dead Space last sales numbers was 2 million,
It's the players fault for not giving greedy EA the dough,
If it had sales at least 3mil to 5mil plus EA might consider it
Didn't ds3 sell below expectations? EA probably felt the franshise was done and dusted.
Anyways i enjoyed my time with Glen's recent game. A longer experience or a dead space 4 would have been great .
It did. The Dead Space remake also did, and Schofield's last game underperformed in both sales and critical reception. So there's not a lot to argue here.
It's a shame the game released with bugs / issues. When i played it, everything had been fixed and was great. I would have bought a follow up game.
Callisto was so bad because of the terrible combat design choice. Plus they don't know how to make a game that feels scary like a horror movie
Damnit, one of the Sci Fi series ever made and they refuse to make a 4th.
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