When Dead Space Extraction got launched last September, Sega saw it as a milestone to see how much success there is for an adult Wii game. With EAs marketing power behind it, an IP that recently became a huge success on the market and got high review scores, this game just had to score according to them.

Nothing proved more wrong, however. Sega is disappointed by the cold reaction the game got and more specific about the sales numbers that didn't even manage to reach 10.000 in the first month after release. Also their own titles for the Wii like Madworld and The House of the Dead: Overkill were less succesful than hoped.

Studio director Constantine Hantzopoulos describes Sega's reaction as follows:
He admits that something like Madworld was a gamble, but studies had showed that there's an audience for adult Wii games. Seems that audience prefers to spend their money on games for the PS3 or X360.

He did add that Sega is happy with the quality of their games and that they're slowly reaching black numbers in the books. Another property of the Wii is after all that games sell slower, but for a longer period.

All in all pretty sad to see Sega is clearly not interested anymore in focusing on "real" games for the Wii.

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