Thu, Mar 05, 2009 | 18:55 GMT
EA: Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge will eventually be considered successful
EA may have considered Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge financial underachievers over the holidays, but senior VP Patrick Söderlund feels that over the course the games’ lifetime, each will be considered a success.
“I think if you analyze games like Dead Space and Mirror’s Edge for their lifetime performance, I bet you’ll find them to be seen as successful,” he said.
“They’re both new IPs; it’s hard to break new ground with new IPs, especially in that Q3 window, when you have games like Gears of War 2, Call of Duty 5, and a bunch of other really strong products with a 2, or 3, or 4, or 5 on it.
“So, I think that we could have done a better job as far as ship timing on, probably, both of those.”
As far as Dead Space is concerned, he felt that it did well during its release quarter and he thinks it’s “an awesome game”.
He admitted that Mirror’s Edge was not “perfect,” and says that EA plans to address those issues with “future versions”.
More over on Gamasutra.
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6 comments
#1
Gekidami
05/03/09, 6:59 pm
Dead Space is already praised by alot of people, Mirror’s Edge on the other hand was pretty crappy in nearly every way so i dont see that ever becoming something big, Dead Space has a chance, it all really depends on where the devs take it in the future, though the Wii is already a bad start…
#2
DaMan
05/03/09, 7:02 pm
Dead Space is an awesome game. it’s RE4 perfected.
quite sad such a great game underperforms in sales and crap like RE5 doesn’t flop.
#3
Gekidami
05/03/09, 7:08 pm
Dead Space would have done alot better if EA didnt release it along side all the other big hitter sequels at the time, its purely EA’s own fault.
#4
ShiroGamer
05/03/09, 10:27 pm
to me
Both are MORE than good games
ME had a very unique way (its kinda not done well but HEY its the 1st so give it a break)
DS MAn ! that game gave me chills and made switch lights
on after 20 mins ,lol
#5
JesteR
05/03/09, 10:46 pm
DS is very good. I think ME is very good too but you need to like the trickjumping a lot to really appreciate the game.
#6
hitnrun
06/03/09, 3:41 am
I know it’s proven through market research that most titles benefit financially from being released in the pre-Christmas window, even when you’d assume that there’s too much crowding and not enough money.
However, there’s some games that really, *really* need to be released at another time. New IPs in not-readily-recognizable genres on which a lot of money has been spent definitely falls into that category.