EA to blame customers for Dead Space sales instead of themselves.

[LordTheNightKnight]

Mr Khan said:

MontanaHatchet said:
Guys, I gotta say, your excuses are pretty lame. Umbrella Chronicles and House of the Dead were both on rails shooters for the Wii, and they both sold over a million. Additionally, both games got much worse reviews than Dead Space: Extraction, so quality certainly isn't a factor. Perhaps being an on rails shooter disappointed a lot of people. But even that wouldn't result in the incredibly low level of sales it has.

Your point reinforces my own, it was an issue of not so much being on rails, but being an on-rails spinoff of a game that relatively few people care about.

I'll add it has nothing to do with the Wii. Cinematic games going too far only please the critics and snobs of the gaming community. Put too little game in it, and those other factors combine to make a poor seller.

I say this is more proof games being just like movies is a bad thing.