>>723177205
>EA wants the franchise to sell 20 million copies every time despite none of the entries coming close to that.
I wish people stopped repeating this bullshit. I don't even know who made up this fairy tale. Sure EA is a dogshit company but Dead Space remake sold very poorly. If your game goes on a heavy discount a mere month after publishing, you know you are fucked. The development cost easily over $100M. You would be better off buying gold than investing into Dead Space.
The mistake EA did was pumping so much money into DS2. While DS2 is one of my favorite games, it didn't end well for them back then either because it severely underperformed, again you would be better off buying gold. The second mistake EA made was trying to turn the franchise into something it wasn't with DS3. If they played the long game, they could've potentially built it into another RE franchise, but they were too shortsighted for that.