EA deny that Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being shelved due to poor sales of first game
Update: EA have now denied Grubb's claims that the Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being effectively cancelled, telling IGN: "We don't normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story." That report adds that the sequel wasn't considered for development to begin with, despite the first remake having performed well in EA's eyes, according to a source.
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A remake of Dead Space 2 - following last year’s return of the original sci-fi survival-horror game - was reportedly in the works at EA, but has since been halted after the first game suffered underwhelming sales.
That’s the apparent news from fount of industry gossip Jeff Grubb, who claimed during a recent episode of Giant Bomb’s Game Mess Mornings that developers EA Motive “were working on Dead Space 2” - reaching the pre-production phase for a remake of the 2011 sequel - before shelving it indefinitely.
That decision apparently came on the back of “lacklustre sales” for the Dead Space remake, despite its critical acclaim.
“They were working on it. They were working on Dead Space 2, and they are no longer working on it,” Grubb said. “‘It is on the shelf because the first game had lacklustre sales,’ is how it was phrased to me. So if you were looking forward to a Dead Space 2, it’s bad news. It straight-up is just bad news.
“Does this mean it never happens? I don’t know if that’s the case. But as it stands right now, they were working on it. It was in the concepting phase, I believe. It was definitely pre-production. And now that work has been put on the shelf.”
[Game Mess Mornings]
According to @JeffGrubb, EA Motive was working on a 'Dead Space 2' Remake which was in concept phase but got cancelled/shelved because of the lackluster sales of the first Remake.
They are now working on Iron Man and Battlefield.https://t.co/iqv0EGNXJX pic.twitter.com/LziW0qx72X
The shelving of a Dead Space 2 remake comes as at least part of Motive shifts to working on the
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