Mass Effect Trilogy Coming to PS3?(GDC Announcement)

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rocketpig said:

Impulsivity said:

Devise01 said:

Splenda14 said:

madskillz said:
Interesting. Microsoft published the first ME. I can't wait to see the legal wrangling that will happen over that one.

If the first ME is coming to the PS3, that's news to me.

 

EA owns the Mass Effect IP so there would be no legal problems

 

But MS funded and published the first game. I wonder how this would work.

   MS funded BIOWARE and thus if Bioware was a solo company there might be issues.  However bioware is now part of EA.  EA has no such agreement or history with MS and is thus free to do whatever it wants.

   Additionally, due to the Euro in large part, the PS3 has been more profitable for EA then the 360 (since any sale in Europe is worth between 1.3x and 1.5x what an American sale is).  Someone posted their balance sheet here previously but sure if you're interested you can look it up.  EA has absolutely no interest in screwing over the PS3 and are not at all a MS centered developer (as Bioware was when on its own, KOTOR, JE ect). 

   Chance of ME2 and later being on PS3 is around 85% IMO, ME1 on PS3 at least 75%.  It's just money on the table if they don't do it and EA can't afford to leave money on the table especially to benefit MS who EA is no friend to.

  And for the few who made the arguement that somehow the PS3 version would hold back the quality of the 360 version, given the DVD/Blu Ray divide and power divide both in the PS3's favor I seriously doubt that arguement holds any water at all.

100% inaccurate. EA is legally bound to uphold any and all contracts negotiated by BioWare. If there was a contract in place, EA will have to uphold it. In fact, EA had to negotiate publishing rights with MS for the PC version of Mass Effect.

It's not as if a company can buy up another company and then ignore said company's debt, leaving all bills unpaid because "they didn't buy those products". This is the same thing.

With that said, I expect ME2 to be multiplatform.

 

 

Good luck with that, Pig.  I tried the same a couple of posts up and I don't think anyone believes it.  The make-believe land of "EA can do whatever it wants" will be the prevailing belief without regard to pre-existing, legally-enforceable contracts.

BUT, as you said, EA is a cash whore.  They will milk every IP for everything it is worth.  I'm sure they'll find a way to go multi-plat with ME2 and ME3.