Despite having a strong fan base, former writer and producer, Chuck Beaver, believes a fourth entry in the acclaimed Dead Space series is highly unlikely to be ever made cause of several factors, which he explains in a recent interview with FRVR. His words also point out what are some of the sad aspects of the videogame industry today which include an unfair amount of turnover value required for a project to even be considered worth investing on time and again, and more. So if you’re a fan of the Dead Space horror series from EA, make sure to read the interview in full.
“Any of the Resident Evils are selling around seven million [copies], that’s a pretty good number,” Beaver said. “But, you know, companies now are looking for the next Fortnite. They need something that is a perennial moneymaker… something like a single-player package game with no live-service offering that’s like it’s just a dinosaur fossil of a business model.”
“It wasn’t like it didn’t get a run out of it,” he said. “I mean, it’s disappointing that we can’t [t]ake a beloved franchise to its logical end, but I guess I’m too much of a producer, [I’ve] been producing for too long. I understand the numbers, and I understand what’s happening, and why even Motive wasn’t really greenlit for anything after the remake.”
The Dead Space remake which was released in 2023, did pretty good critically and commercially, but clearly not enough for the publisher to keep investing in the franchise.
“Horror games have a bit of a ceiling, you know, and I think the number back in [former EA VP] Frank Gibeau’s day was 5 million units to keep going on Dead Space,” Beaver continued. “I think the number is like 15 million units now, given the cost of things,” he added, before joking that it was “a sadness in capitalism for all of us to suffer, until AI makes it apparently easy for you and I just type ‘make Dead Space 4.'”
