Dead Space: Extraction might not be a Wii exclusive after all

Dead Space: Extraction has long been known as a title only for Wii, but now there appears to be a fairly strong chance that the game could see a release on other platforms - at least if teased words from the game's producer have any meaning.

[DragonWarrior_4]

I hope not. Dead Space is one of the best games out this gen.

[knox]

wait you hope not what? doesnt stay exclusive? i dunno if i want it to be an exclusive or not but it might be cool to see what changes were made if it went to the ps3/360 or even iphone

[saint_john_paul_ii]

people who has played Dead Space most likely doesnt have a wii. i wouldnt mind waiting for a while for them to port the game to the HD consoles. Especially when the PS3 is also getting motion controls.

[FarEastOrient]

EA probably saw how bad the sells were for games like The Conduit, MadWorld, and Dead Rising for the Wii and said yup we are not going to be making any money off the Wii version.

[dragunrising]

Why would this come out for 360/PS3? Its a light gun game... Before anyone shouts out Time Crisis 4, remember that the Wii doesn't need additional hardware to be a light gun game.

I hope this isn't true as my Wii needs all the love it can get these days... :-p

[MEsoJD]

Isn't this a rail shooter???

Who actually thought it was coming to anything else???

[Poopface the 2nd]

they would just make dead space 2 instead.

[N4g_null]

I actually hope they do this. Back in the days all systems would get the port at the same time. Then you could see where the gamers really where. I mean if you look at battle toads and double dragon it came out on the NES ans snes and genesis. Lots of people claim they played only the NES version. It would be nice if this worked in reverse also because the publishers are shooting them selves in the foot I believe.

[Smacktard]

@1.3

The Conduit sales are doing well (Wii games are typically believed to have legs... see Galaxy, and how Mario Kart among others still hits the top 10 chart like every week). Also, Dead Rising? Are you serious? The Wii version of that game is terrible, and if it sold a single copy, then it sold one copy too many.

[Megaton]

I absolutely LOVE Dead Space, but isn't this one a rail shooter? Keep it on the Wii if it is, I'll wait for a real sequel.

[DARK WITNESS]

ya, 100% i to love dead space. my game of the year 2008, i like the idea of this game, but at the same time. if its made with the wii in mind then keep it on the wii.

just take time and make dead space 2 as good as dead space one and they will have a winner.

[Carl1412]

Agreed. Dead Space was one of my favourite games of last year, but i'd rather not have a crappy rail shooter version.

[Product]

G4TV:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blo...

" Electronic Arts has been promoting Dead Space Extraction as a Wii exclusive since it was announced, but does that really mean Dead Space Extraction won't appear elsewhere? At the Dead Space Extraction panel at Comic-Con, the team would only smile, teasing they knew something we didn't.

"Right now it's exclusively to the Nintendo Wii," said executive producer Steve Papoutsis, "but that's an interesting question."

A later question asked if it would make sense as an iPhone game. The team went into sarcasm mode. Sarcasm is usually a good indicator you're onto something.

"Yes, that [idea is] pretty cool," said Papoutsis. "Top notch!"

Sounds like we could have an iPhone version in the works, folks."

[Gr81]

Thanks for putting this in context Product.

Also, remember when it was announced that the game was a rail shooter and HD fans laughed, now they want the game ported to their system? How would that work? Look at how time crisis flopped on PS3, if EA is smart they should save their resources for a more fruitful endeavor.

Hell even the first dead space flopped.

[PirateThom]

While rail shooters are at home on Wii, Time Crisis on PS3 didn't flop because of the user base, it flopped because Time Crisis 4 is a terrible, terrible game. This is from someone who spent a lot of time with every arcade version of Time Crisis and owned the home versions... until 4.

[Gr81]

A game on Wii flops its because of the Wii. When a game on the other systems flop its because the game sucked..interesting.

[Automat]

Time Crisis 4 on PS3 sucked so much I haven't got words for it... it looked like a bad PS2 game, and the gameplay wasn't much better.. just STFU if you haven't played it.
Dead Space was my GOTY 08, it's a shame people didn't pick it up.

[PirateThom]

What?

I'm talking about a bad game selling badly.

Time Crisis 4 didn't sell because it sucked.

[Gr81]

I think maybe you need to stfu, and now. I don't know who you think you are typing too, but don't be a tough guy.

Pirate; I'm just makin an observation is all.

[asdr3wsfas]

"What?

I'm talking about a bad game selling badly.

Time Crisis 4 didn't sell because it sucked."

You weren't the one who said this, but anyone who owned Madworld would tell you it's 6 hours of repetitive gameplay and that's why it failed, yet we still come into threads like this where it's used as evidence the wii has no hardcore base. Meanwhile successful wii hardcore games like those in the RE series (RE4, Umbrella Chronicles) or Call of Duty are completely ignored, even though they did amazingly well and each sold over a million.

Scroll up a ways for an example of Madworld specifically and look at the comment directly below mine for a less specific form of the same accusation. Note that neither of those commenters mention any of the games I did. Of course there are more hardcore games that didn't break a million but sold incredibly well.

It's frustrating because people who haven't played, owned, or beaten the game are telling those of us who have why it failed. Again, it wasn't you who said that, but you have to understand that we hear that it all the time and we're all very tired of it. But now you understand how annoying it is.

[sak500]

Well i will not be surprised if it's announced as MP due to the atrocisous sales record of wii games. The majority of million toppers are the ones bundled with some thing or other. So if EA wants money out of it better release it on the HD consoles.

[Kamikaze135]

Dead Space is one the the best games out this gen. I wouldn't mind playing another game in the series. However, I don't own a Wii and don't plan on buying one till Final Fantasy Chronicles comes out

[Mo0eY]

I hope they release this prequel as a non-on rails game. I loved Dead Space, and I played it religiously last year. One of the greatest games of '08.

[user3915800]

No there is no great experience at all with the innacurate wii-motes, and mature title should only be consider on the best platform (360), and PS3 its not even worth title in, because they wil received the end of the stick like always from the third party.

PS3 should stick to first title party since they do a better job with the console, since the engine used for it are essential to its cell processing core.

Major difference in utilizing the same engine its innevitable that the 360 will be the superior game as proven 100's of times over (Jump In).

There is 2 system that do not see the light of day in my house, not because we dont have them (currently have 2 wii, 1 PS3 and 3 360), but because there is nothing worth play on them and anything on the PS3 its better deal having the 360 for it.

About the only thing good about the Wii and Ps3 are the first party support and nothing else.

Wii its the show and tell hi hop innacurate garbage, while the PS3 its air purifier that continues to gather dust. Ok, so you didnt like that, but its the truth.

[qface64]

anyone hopping for a ps3 and 360 version that is different just give it up if it comes over its gonna be a on rails game not much will be changed since any major changes will be like making a new game entirely

besides from the article it seems like its coming to the iphone
EA is a big supporter right?

[asdr3wsfas]

Guys, this wii games don't sell trope is getting old. As a lot of posts have suggested The Conduit bombed, let's look at some actual figures.

Call of Duty for wii went platinum and eventually sold over a million copies. It sold 76k copies in the first two weeks of its release during the holiday season.

The Conduit sold 72k copies in the first 11 days of its release by NPD tracking data. The same NPD report said the video game industry was in a significant slump. The game was released in June, not during the holidays.

The Conduit sales for the initial 11 days are 4k less than the initial 14 day sales of what eventually became a million plus seller. The Conduit was released in the slower summer months during a slump in the industry, and The Call of Duty was released during the relatively profitable Christmas. Despite this The Conduit still sold more copies daily than Call of Duty, which eventually broke 1 million.

How can you conclude this bombed? It's common knowledge wii games sell slowly over a long period of time. They're not like games for the HD consoles. If you compare this to a game in the same genre for the wii all the evidence suggests it'll do remarkably well. It could still bomb, but at the moment there's nothing to suggest it'll do anything other than succeed. It beat the initial sales of a million plus seller in the same genre with less name recognition during an economic slump.

I'm not naive enough to suggest it'll do that well. There isn't enough evidence to suggest it. Based on how wii games sell, I'd wait several months before I made any personal judgment. My point is that with the initial data we have, there's no evidence to suggest it failed. In fact, all the evidence we have suggests it'll be a very successful game.

This happens every time. No More Heroes was considered a flop at launch. Now it's Suda's most successful seller on *any* console ever. It's earned a wii-exclusive sequel. Now what did we learn about wii hardcore game sales? Slow and steady wins the race...

RE4 sold has sold over 1.5 million copies on wii. It's a release of a last gen game that most people have already played. RE: Umbrella Chronicles is a ***rail shooter*** that has sold over a million copies and also earned a sequel. As I said, Call of Duty sold over a million and went platinum on the wii. Red Steel sold over a million. House of the Dead: Overkill has already earned a profit for Sega. Oh yeah, weren't most of these games considered failures too?

I'm sick of people mentioning Madworld. I bought Madworld and it had 6 hours of gameplay and wasn't worth 50 dollars. It was universally judged a rental. The game was an extremely niche title from the start. What else do you call a game that's entirely black and white? And what little gameplay it had was extremely repetitive. How many of you commenters actually own or played - let alone beat - Madworld? Why do you feel qualified to speculate on why it failed?

This isn't even a legitimate argument. Over and over, the same group of people look at initial wii game sales and say a given title bombed. They ignore when people tell them that wii games sell slowly over time. Then those games become tremendous successes but are still considered failures - anyone making this argument doesn't actually follow the wii.

My entire argument left out the fact that development costs for wii games are millions less because they don't need nearly as much concept art or graphical tweaking as the HD systems. So with the numbers I posted, they're making much more of a profit than they would on 360 or PS3 selling the same amount of games. The argument that they don't make money is even more naive when you consider this, and it was pretty ignorant to begin with.

[San Frandisco]

^^^^ Shutup dude.

[asdr3wsfas]

Call me when you graduate from your gimped pc and I'll whoop your ass in UT or Quake. You'll have to learn to shoot without n00bsticks or aim assist.

[Product]

^ I like this guy

[fossilfern]

It would work great with Sonys Eye Toy motion control thing. i loved the first Dead Space it kind of filled that void that Resident Evil used to fill.

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

Rail shooters need a renaissance, and maybe a game like this, at the right time, can help the Eye and Natal be taken more seriously by core gamers.

[SpoonyRedMage]

@Sheikh you completely baffled me with that statement because the Wii has a whole bunch of good rail shooters(two Resis, a few House of the Deads and this upcoming) which means it kind of has a rennaisance and the games haven't helped the Wii being taken seriously at all!

[asdr3wsfas]

Don't forget Ghost Squad! I had never heard of the game before I got my wii but it reminds me a lot of Time Crisis. It's insanely fun.

[BlackIceJoe]

Not to say Dead Space:Extraction will not come out on either the PS3 or 360. But if the game comes out on another system I could see the game coming out on the PSP. Seeing as an onrail-shooter could work really well with the system. Plus I would love to play some Dead Space on the PSP too.

[Shnazzyone]

what is it with people having to ask about if wii exclusive titles are going to remain exclusive?!?! Why can't the devs and pr just say, "yes, it's wii exclusive" rather then even entertaining the concept for even one moment. Why is it all everyone has to be so jealous of wiis exclusive offerings that they want these games for their systems too!?!? At least MH 3 and MUramasa are still wii exclusive and those developers better keep their mouths shut! Because all it takes these days is a maybe and there are headlines abound!

BTW... yeah this is a rail shooter it would probably suck arse with anything other then "point at the screen and pull the trigger" controls. Maybe he is only discussing iphone but if so.. f-that noise. If dead space is so good then they shouldn't be whoring out their titles so quickly. If it was made for wii in the first place then you shouldn't make two heaping steps backwards by making it a touch cellphone game too.

[Mahr]

Shnazz, people getting riled up over exclusivity and games going multi-platform is hardly a Wii thing.

"Why can't the devs and pr just say, "yes, it's wii exclusive" rather then even entertaining the concept for even one moment."

Because situations change. If the game sells only two copies, there is no company that wouldn't at least *consider* a port, no matter how half-baked or poorly done. Or sometimes technology comes out so that an alternate system port wouldn't have to be half-baked.

I don't see what the problem would be. If HD-only console owners want to play a rail-shooter without an IR pointer, or wait God knows how long for their respective motion set-ups to come out, more power to them.

"Why is it all everyone has to be so jealous of wiis exclusive offerings that they want these games for their systems too!?!?"

Because good exclusives always drive non-owners of the respective console crazy. If they want to be jealous of Wii-owners, there's nothing wrong with that.

"At least MH 3 and MUramasa are still wii exclusive and those developers better keep their mouths shut! Because all it takes these days is a maybe and there are headlines abound!"

I hope you're joking; if not... I have some bad news for you.

http://www.n4g.com/News-349...

http://www.siliconera.com/2...

[Automat]

Dead Space II is in the works, I'd rather wait for that game..

[Britney Spears]

It won't,it doesn't make sense unless they mean it will come to PS2.

[jarhead906]

It's not entirely improbable that Dead Space: Extraction would appear elsewhere. There's a good chance that it will be ported to the PS3 as a full download through PSN or retail when the 'PS Wand' arrives.

I'm sure by now Sony (and Microsoft, no doubt) are working closely with big developers like EA to use their respective motion technology so at least a few titles are up and running before the holiday season.

For DS: Extraction though, it seems less likely for 'Project Natal' unless MS drops the "controllers/buttons only hinder innovation and game enjoyment" marketing and decides that it's better to have a controller in conjunction with motion detection.

[SR388]

i really like Dead Space it was great, i cant wait for Extraction looks awesome but it better not go to other consoles that wud suck ass.

[lizard81288]

i like how people say the wii has no games, but if its a wii exclusive(3rd party game), then they cry about it not being on the ps360's.

also from the article it looks like, if they did port it, it would go to the iphone.

[ShadowCK]

I hate the Wii. This video summarises of what I think of it.

[PS360WII]

lol I love how the title of this article is obviously the only thing most read. They aren't saying it might come to PS3/360 also they are saying it might also come to iPhone ;)

Although I don't know what is worse Wii/PSP or Wii/iPhone -.- ah well what can you do it'll just have to live with the stigmata it has.

That said Doom Resurrection was really impressive for the iPhone so more light gun games would do it well me thinks. Just like the Wii is set up well for the light gun genre.