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It appears (from what we know) unlikely that the game would have been made at all, or at least not with all its server-side features, were it not for active support from MS - a condition of which was obviously exclusivity.

Well if it just the rumor then is it the true rumor or false rumor?

Seriously why not simply answer the question....yes or no?

Maybe he just means it has alien sex, since that's pretty much the only thing all three games had in common.

Oh, and Garrus <3

What about the Mass Effect Trilogy remake???
Is that a rumor (genuine question; I haven't been keeping up)...
And as much as I love the world of Mass Effect, I'm not exactly sure what Mass Effect 4 could possibly be about, unless it's a prequel...
As much as I love Mass Effect, I'm scared of what it could become...

EA isn't that stupid.

Actually, when someone says "this game feels like ___" it's probably cause for concern. It shouldn't have to be said that a game feels like said game lol.

Mass Effect 1 was cool, 2 was alright, 3 was kinda too watered down for me, not much of an RPG really.
I wish they made a less pretensious space game, less apocalypitic stuff, more exploring the galaxy stuff.

Guarantee it will be on PC come what may. This is a game that would get 360 owners who are intending to buy PS4 to have a serious rethink. But I also think EA are very disinclined to re-exclusivise this franchise. Timed exclusive, perhaps, exclusive DLC I can see that possibility, exclusive marketing I think you can almost be certain of this.

The cost of going true console exclusive, with the install base lead PS4 currently has, is very high. You have Dragon Age: Inquisition selling best on PS4, so the console WRPG fanbase seems to be gravitating to PS4. Mass Effect will have potentially the bigger fan base on Xb one, given that's where it started, but it is entirely possible that a lot of the Mass Effect fanbase has moved across to PS4. There has to be quite a bit of cross pollination between Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

But really people should be saying no to turning multiplats into exclusives. This is bad. This will only lead Sony to do another SFV type deal and that kind of tit for tat is not what I want to see this generation. Sink money into more exclusive new IP and get the generation humming with exciting new properties that make each console's game library unique. Also doing that means having true exclusives, rather than console/PC exclusives.

With Mass Effect 4 I will just wait until I get a new PC that is capable of running it if it skips PS4. I only buy one console per generation and I have PS4 already.

And it was new IP without an established fanbase on either PS or Xbox. Therefore you can't claim that you are throwing away X million in sales, like you can reasonably predict in the case of games like RTR and SFV. It is far less costly for MS/Sony to buy exclusivity of a new IP because there's no goodwill element they have to pay. A new IP is an unkown and a risk, therefore the cost to buy exclusivity has to be correspondingly lower because there's a chance the console maker won't benefit at all if the game ends up being a bit of a dissappontment in the sales department. It's not every new IP that does a Gears or a Halo. Ryse, SO, and even to some extent Titanfall are examples of exclusive games that didn't really fire as might have been hoped for. One wonders how much SO would have sold had it not been for the white bundle, for example. It was great that MS put so much stock in SO that they created a special bundle for it. But aside from the white console making SO sales look better, SO has not established itself as the big new early gen IP for Xbox. And clearly with a white bundle MS were hoping for it to be something like that.

They would be pissing off a ton of people if they made this exclusive again.