Dead Space: Extraction a watershed for mature Wii games?

Dr Jens Uwe Intat, European VP at Electronic Arts, has revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that the performance of forthcoming Visceral follow-up, Dead Space: Extraction, could influence the company's decision to create mature-content games on the Nintendo Wii in the future.

Speaking in an interview at Gamescom last month Intat explained his hypothesis that many Wii owners also own either an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, and that the tendency is for people to use the latter on adult-orientated titles.

"One of the explanations we have is that there's a lot of double ownership," he said. "So people having a Wii and a 360 and/or PS3. They're really playing different types of games on those two machines, and historically up to know we assume those people will have played the more mature content on the more high-tech machine.