Dead Space Extraction. Whats the problem????

[theRepublic]

oniyide said:

...but still 7-8 games is ot that much

I'm assuming you mean "not".

Rail shooters are not a big genre to begin with.  Even the big IPs don't exactly light up the charts.  Then you have to consider that most home consoles see very few games in this genre, maybe something like 1 - 2 per generation, if that.  In 2008 Wii had: one Resident Evil and another already announced, Ghost Squad, Link's Crossbow Training, House of the Dead 2 & 3, and House of the Dead: Overkill announced.  That's six games in the genre at least announced only two years into the generation.  That is pretty well flooded by this genre's standards.  All pretty big IPs too.

Then EA announces Dead Space for Wii.  Then later they announce it will be a rail shooter.  Strike one is the crowded market.  They were just too late.  Strike two is that they waited to announce it as a rail shooter.  That is poor expectation management.  This is a genre change for the franchise.  Strike three.  This franchise only has one other game, and it is on a different console than the spin off.  Strike four.

All that added up against that game before it even had any reviews.  It hardly mattered how good or bad it was.