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- Glenn Schofield believes that there’s an opportunity for Dead Space 4 at EA with the publisher under new leadership.
- Previous executives rejected his pitch due to the underwhelming sales of the remake of the first game.
- Schofield says that he can save EA around $30-40 million for the fourth entry by recycling models from the remake.
Despite 2023’s Dead Space remake being the perfect start for the revitalization of the franchise, EA didn’t capitalize on the IP’s hype. Consequently, a remake for the sequel was also canceled since the first game didn’t sell well as per the publisher’s expectations.
Just last year, Glenn Schofield, the creator behind the IP, pitched a new entry to EA, but he was rejected. Now with the publisher under new leadership, the creator believes that there’s definitely an opportunity for a fourth entry.
Why it matters: Dead Space is arguably one of the best horror games, and despite such critical success, EA wasn’t doing much with the IP. However, things are poised to change under the new leadership.
In an interview with IGN, Schofield discussed the future of the Dead Space series. He said:
I have quite a few ideas that I’m ready to go with and one of them is Dead Space 4, — The fact that EA just got bought, I think there’s an opportunity. I’m already making calls.
Last year, Schofield presented EA with a pitch to make Dead Space 4 and even offered to save up $30-40 million on the project by reusing the models from EA Motive during their development of the first game’s remake. Unfortunately, the higher-ups at EA showed no interest.
Just last month, the publisher was bought off by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners in a whopping $50 billion deal. Hopefully, the new executives at the publisher will see the future and the potential that the Dead Space franchise holds.
One of the reasons behind the rejection of a fourth entry could be due to the failure of The Callisto Protocol. The game’s failure eventually led to the shutdown of The Striking Distance studio, and EA was quite disappointed with the outcome. Still, Schofield recently said that the game sold 7 million copies to date.
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