

Dead Space 2 in particular was a topic of conversation on his Twitter feed. Wilson, who's currently working on an unannounced project at Bethesda Game Studios, was at Visceral during the heady days of Dead Space. The key point here is expectations, according to level designer Zach Wilson. Particularly, how Dead Space is often looked at by EA as an under-performing franchise, despite being loved by players everywhere.

Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates.īecause sales figures are estimated based on sampling, they will be more accurate for higher-selling titles.In the wake of the sad news of EA shuttering Visceral Games, one former staff member opened up about the beloved Dead Space series. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. The consumer spending estimate is based on the average sales price for the title in the retailers we survey. The market share is converted into a weekly sales estimate based on industry reports on the overall size of the market, including reports published in Media Play News.įor example, if our weekly retail survey estimates that a particular title sold 1% of all units that week, and the industry reports sales of 1,500,000 units in total, we will estimate 15,000 units were sold of that title. Our DVD and Blu-ray sales estimates are based on weekly retail surveys, which we use to build a weekly market share estimate for each title we are tracking.
