Not too many people know, these days. Anyways if this sells good I can't wait for EA's take on masterpieces such as for example Proust's À la recherche... I'm sure it'd make awesome groundwork for a third person shooter .

Doesn't matter. Dead Space is still the best survival horror game since RE4. Are you saying that you would rather not have a high quality game come out because it used ideas from something else? If that's the case, then you mustn't like anything at all.

And yes, it does deserve better sales. Subjectively of course.

That's a sad thought.  Most people not knowing anyway.

Things have changed =) years ago quotes from Homer or Euripides made you look cool, these days the cool thing is pop culture references.

Who knows, EA might reverse the trend ^ ^

edit: to add that I read it when I was a youngling and I found it so impressive. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever read. And to think these days things like Gears or GTA4's scripts pass as "good writing". Sigh.

There are people that wouldn't consider RE4 survival horror anymore... Let alone dead space. While I'd give the survival horror nod to RE4, dead space is an action game. And as an action game its quite repetitive, unoriginal and unimaginative... The slicing mechanic was great as well as zero gravity rooms and the visuals...everything else was done better in other games.

In any case I think it got the sales it deserved being a shooter action game without coop and without any online what so ever. 

Problem is they tried to push out too many new IPs in a very crowded market already.

Creating new IPs is a tough job and requires a lot of marketing.
So far Ubisoft did the best job in that area with Assassin's Creed that was advertised very heavilly and featured a commercial that actually was impressive at the time ( even if the game ended to be a little repetitive, the commercial was indeed stunning and convinced some players to purchase the game just on its strenght).
I can't however say that any commercial this holydays made me jump in my seat and scream 'woah'

So far this gen the 2 best commercials were still Halo 3 ( because of the song ) and Assassin's Creed...