The OG creators pitched Dead Space 4 to EA this year, but the publisher gave a flat 'no' so 'we didn't take it any further'

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“We tried actually, the three of us,” says Schofield. “Dead Space 4. They said no. We’re talking this year [we pitched it]. We didn’t go too deep. They just said ‘We’re not interested right now, we appreciate it blah blah blah.’ And we know who to talk to, so we didn’t take it any further, and we respected their opinion, they know their numbers and what they have to ship.”

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Schofield says the group “have some ideas” for where the fourth game will go, with Dead Space 3 having ended on something of a cliffhanger: Spoiler alert, but the third and thus far final entry ends with co-protagonists Isaac Clarke and John Carver crashing into a moon, their fate left ambiguous. Given that Isaac has rather an outstanding track record of surviving apparent death, I somehow doubt the crash has done for either of them.

“It’s a weird time in the industry right now,” says Stone. “People are really hesitant to take chances on things. So, take it with a grain of salt. Who knows, maybe one day. I think we’d all love to do it. I’d make a Dead Space 4. I’m not saying anything about my current gig [multiplayer shooter Ready or Not]. I’m just saying I would make a Dead Space 4.”

For his part, Schofield’s currently trying to get a smaller project funded (“it’s pretty special to me”),having left Striking Distance Studiosafter the release of The Callisto Protocol. And it may well be that this is the game that really gave EA the heebie-jeebies about a Dead Space continuation because, while it wasa decent enough action-horror experience, it fell far short ofpublisher Krafton’s rather absurd sales expectations.

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