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

[Reasonable]

slowmo said:

Reasonable said:
Unless MS have a cast iron contact EA have to honour this will surely hit PS3 at some point so long as EA believes it will sell more than the cost.

EA is multi-platform. They have no interest I can see in having titles not making money on another platform.

Unless they're using this scenario to leverage money from Microsoft which would then mean zero risk taking on how much the game would cost to port vs sales.

That's possible, although slightly risky for a company like EA in that it could affect sales of other multiplatform titles if they seemed overly biased to one console over another.

I think ME2 will sell very well, enough that EA might quielty keep it off PS3 and settle for 360/PC sales and imply it's based on arrangements made before their involvement - alternatively they might wait for a while in the GTA IV Episodes style then release it on PS3.

I really does depend on the contracts though.  EA may well have inherited a contact that means ME is essentially a console exclusive to 360 in which case they won't even have the option of releasing on PS3 or bartering with MS for other stuff.

As ever time will tell.