Geoff Keighley: Mass Effect 2 Will Come To PS3, EA Just Can’t Talk About It Yet

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makingmusic476 said:

Darc Requiem said:

Kennyheart said:

Darc Requiem said:
Without ME1 it rather pointless. Mass Effect isn't like Final Fantasy. Each Final Fantasy game is it's own contained story and universe. Not only doesn't ME2 continue the story of ME1, the choices you made in the first game directly effect your quest in ME2.

That's why i think they will release both on one disk if it can.

Microsoft has the publishing rights to the original game. Even though they bought Bioware, EA had to work out a deal with MS to publish Mass Effect 1 on PC. 

It's never as simple as "Microsoft has the publishing rights to the original game."  Case in point, Ninja Gaiden II.

We don't know what deal Microsoft made with BioWare, and how that deal has changed now that BioWare has been purchased.  The only way we could be certain either way is if MS owned the Mass Effect IP, which they don't.

I for one have always been in the "Mass Effect will go multiplat" camp (whether it be 1 & 2 or just 2), but I felt the same about MGS4, and that obviously never happened.  It's made me doubt a few things I thought were a given in regards to third party exclusivity.  Of course, the situations are somewhat different.  In MGS4's case, Kojima always specifically stated the game was and would always be exclusive, often stating reasons for exclusivity that seemed almost... personal.  Something along the lines of, "It's exclusive cuz I want it to be exclusive, even if financially it's not a very wise move."  In the case of Mass Effect, they have never expressly denied a ps3 version, which implies it remains pc/360 strictly for business reasons, reasons that may not be an inhibiting factor some time down the road.

There was also an article on how there was some sleight-of-hand to get that game multi-platform...but even with that said, M$ had publishing rights to the trilogy of ME games...we know that for a fact.  EA's purchase of Bioware would have had very little effect on that agreement...sorry, but I'm not sure how that would make sense otherwise…Sony owns the rights to make Spider-Man movies from Marvel (Disney) and Paramount owns distributor rights for Iron Man movies.  Those are both VERY lucrative agreements, and I’m sure Disney would LOVE to get them back and keep all that money in house, but it’s not going to happen.  Back to Mass Effect, the sag estimate of what the publisher stands to rake off ME2 is $50-60 million…so you’ll think M$ just voluntarily returned those publisher rights to EA?  The key here for EA is this…do they want to chance a guaranteed $50-60 million and go multiplatform?  I think if you look at the moves by EA wrt to Dante’s Inferno and BF2…PS3 is there platform of choice…or maybe it’s just payback for M$ not budging on the ME2 franchise…