For one, EA is producing a Dead Space remake of their own – here’s hoping they have realistic sales expectations, eh? – and its launch date was set for just a couple months after that of The Callisto Protocol. Of course, there are some other factors to consider. Further reading: Is The Callisto Protocol better than Dead Space? But it’s not Dead Space, it’s a brand new IP, and Krafton clearly misjudged the broader appeal of the genre, expecting it to be able to immediately stack up against the biggest horror franchise in sales. Dead Space 2 improved to 4 million sales in its lifetime, but was still considered a commercial failure, and Dead Space 3 underperformed to the point that the EA gave up on the series for the time.ĭeveloped by Striking Distance Studios, founded by former Dead Space executive producer Glen Schofield, the build up for The Callisto Protocol leant heavily on the expectation that it could be a spiritual successor to Dead Space. The first game started slowly and took three months to sell 1 million copies. Resident Evil 2 was the biggest success of the bunch, quickly passing 4 million sales in the first month and taking three years to reach 10 million copies.īy comparison, Dead Space’s original run at EA consistently underperformed expectations. In the current market, the horror game benchmark is the Resident Evil series, which over the past five years has seen Resident Evil 7 start with 3.5 million sales in the first three months (short of Capcom’s 4 million target) and Resident Evil Village sell around 6 million copies sold during its first 6 months. This shouldn’t really have been all that surprising, especially when considering the genre and where The Callisto Protocol has come from. Kraton had expected The Callisto Protocol to sell around five million copies, but has now lowered this expectation to just 2 million sales through the rest of 2023.
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