| blizzid said: Legal issues are far more complicated than most people realize - just look at the issues with Goldeneye. Obviously I don't know any of the details involved, but it is possible that Microsoft has legal agreements which would allow them to block a PS3 release of the original game. Since EA owns the IP though, they couldn't block the sequels. (Personally, my bet is that Microsoft only had a timed-exclusive agreement, and we could see a PS3 port of the original. That seems to be their standard practice this gen. You never know, though.) |
Supposedly, MS owned publication rights to the first 2 games, with an option for the third. So unless, EA really made it worth MS's while, it is highly unlikely that ME2 will be on PS3. EA definately bought the rights to publish ME on PC and ME2&3 for XBOX360 from MS. However, I find it hard to believe that MS would allow ME to be published on PS3. Just getting the publication rights to XBOX360 and PC had to have cost EA at least $20-30 million. Who knows how much MS would want to allow publication on PS3.
