coolbeans said:
Saw this on another site's forums so decided action needed to be done on this site:
No Mass Effect 2 for PS3, Bioware explains benefits of Platform ExclusivityThe Decision of not making ME2 for multiple platforms :"We started Mass Effect on Xbox 360 - it was our lead development platform. It made sense for us, we built all of our tools around that and again we're leveraging all of that experience working with the 360 and Unreal technology... it just made sense to continue working on that for the sequel."
Why no PS3 version:"Obviously Unreal technology is cross-platform so it opens up that possibility but at the same time - and not in a negative way - we're looking for the path of least resistance. Mass Effect 1 was a huge investment of time, effort and money on developing this brand new IP and making a sequel is all about hopefully learning from all of your mistakes and leveraging that. What we can do is take all of our time hopefully improving the quality of the title. If we had a few more years then yeah, maybe we'd move to different technologies to make the second one but it just seemed to make sense. We'd just got used to UE3 and we've modified the engine so much... "
Benefits of making ME2 only for 360:So working on just Xbox 360 left you free to focus on design?-Yeah and making a better game. I don't think anyone can really fault us for that because we are our own harshest critics and we wanted to improve upon all of the things we thought we could do better. Then if you bring in technology at that point you run the risk of reinventing the wheel.
Benefits from Microsoft in being Platform Exclusive:" Even though our publisher is EA, Microsoft's always been a very supportive partner. We've had a really good working relationship with Microsoft since the Knights of the Old Republic days. It hasn't really changed too much but working with EA has been fantastic as well, they've opened up more markets to us. Maybe that's the one big difference I've noticed this time around; the teams of people worldwide helping us launch simultaneously is unprecedented."
First comes from N4G :
http://www.n4g.com/NewsPending-446236.aspx
Full interview:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=229700
Hopefully this'll put PS3 ME:2 rumors to rest.
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mass effect 2 it's multiplatform.
they developed it for PC also.
O_o
