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I am still awaiting his E3 megaton he said was supposed to come out.

Everyone... meet the 360s version of MGS4.

your just kicking a dead horse now.

If EA wants to pay a ton of money to M$, when it's losing money hand-over-fist...sure, because I'm sure M$ would squeeze millions from them...probably on the order of $50-60 million. Imho, M$ should have either secured the rights to the game, before EA bought Bioware, or they should launch their own Space opera IP.

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.

yea,id buy it day one too, but so would a lot of 360 owners when mgs4 came out and doesnt look like thats crossing over anytime soon. gah, 3rd party should stay third party, and let first and second party do their jobs.

Even if it did come to the PS3 which i doubt i still would get it on the PC as i believe it will be a better experience in both control wise and graphics wise on the PC.

Ninja Gaiden II is a poor example. NG2 is similar to Monster Hunter Tri. Nintendo is handling MH3 outside of Japan but it clearly a Capcom property. The Ninja Gaiden IP has appeared on non MS platforms before and Tomonbu Itagaki was the key reason for Team Ninja titles having a preference for the Xbox platform. Mass Effect 1's publishing situation is quite different. MS funded ME1's development and while IP has always been Bioware's. Microsoft retained the publishing rights. For how long is in question but if there was no sort of deal in place, EA would not have had to make a deal with MS to publish the PC version. I would assume based on prior Bioware developed games that their some sort of contract in place. Lucasarts owns the KOTOR IP. Yet, no games in that series has been released on another console platform.

I'm inclined to agree with MrStickBall's prior assessment of the situation. MS and EA most likely have some sort of exclusivity deal for ME2 on 360 and PC. The PS3 will probably get an Mass Effect Trilogy compilation on a single disc around the time of Mass Effect 3's launch.

Seems fair to me. 360 obtained the elusive Final Fantasy XIII. PS3 can have Mass Effect 2. But it will be a timed 360 exclusive. So 12 months later it may appear on the PS3. But pointless unless Mass Effect is released on the PS3.

Possibility: Mass Effect 1 and 2 on 1 PS3 Blu-Ray game disc.