Dead Space Extraction is a MAJOR flop - we need to talk about it

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All this should really mean to EA is that they aren't likely to release another M rated on-rails shooters, Dead Space or other.

Personally, I don't think it as anything to do with the IP itself as there were plenty of Wii only owners who were happy to see an exclusive title on their platform from an IP they couldn't previously play until it was revealed to be another on-rails shooters.

Part of the problem is that the Wii naturally lends itself to be a "light gun" platform thanks to built in IR remote aiming, hence the fair amount of light gun games seen so far. And about the only light gun game I can think of offhand that made an attempt to break from rails was Time Crisis 4, which must not have done as well as Namco wanted or we'd have seen more Gun Con 3 games since then.

But, I suppose the message to developers would still be along the lines of core consumers are not currently too interested in light gun games.

It should be interesting to see how well the next RE light gun game will do.