The 'numbers just aren't there,' Dead Space producer says, and that's why we'll probably never see Dead Space 4

Remember a couple years back, when some of the top men behind the Dead Space series dangled a fourth game in front of Electronic Arts, and the response was basically, "Lose my number?" It sounds very much like that was the last gasp for the once-great horror games, at least for the foreseeable future, as producer Chuck Beaver said in an interview with FRVR that it just doesn't have the juice to satisfy the C-suite.

Beaver, who served as a producer on all three Dead Space games, said the challenge facing Dead Space is a familiar one: It needs the potential to be a huge hit in order for EA to give it the green light, and the "numbers just aren't there."

"Horror games have a bit of a ceiling, you know, and I think the number back in [former EA vice president] Frank Gibeau’s day was five million un...