CONFIRMED: Mass Effect 2 Coming to Multiple Platforms, says EA
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I feel like the difference between the two is that Bethesda is more of a mainstream game company, where Bioware can't break any promises cause if they do, more people will turn on them.Richard Groovy Pants said:
AS for the PS3 port of MS2, the difference between Mass Effect and Condemed was that COndemed was released a year before the PS3.
Also Bioware explicitly said in the Mass effect forums that the game wasn't going onto the PS3.
And for that matter, who really cares if it goes over? So the PS3 owners will get a great title on that console, that's a good thing to me, then some of my friends can finnally play it, but I feel they should port the first game before they port the second since MS1 is ALL exposition for MS2 and MS3.
http://www.videogamer.com/news/06-08-2008-9020.html[/quote]Cheeze_Pavilion said:
You do realize that the James Bond IP makes this so complicated, right? This and the fact that I'm pretty sure Rare didn't have the James Bond license back then, but Nintendo (their then-parent company!) did. Now the license holder of the James Bond IP changed a few times since the release, with EA and Activision being in Nintendo's place - and seeing that bringing "GoldenEye" to XBL or WiiWare would technically constitute a new release, Rare (or Microsoft, who are now their parent company) would violate the rights of whoever now holds the exclusive license to publish Bond Games.
Mass Effect, conversely, is an original IP by Bioware/EA.
I'm not saying we can know precisely why ME didn't come to the PS3, and thus make any assumptions on what will happen with ME 2.Cheeze_Pavilion said:
But I can say with absolute certainty that MS does have no rights on the Mass Effect franchise and thus didn't license it to Bioware, but the other way round:
Please also keep in mind that Bioware never was a subsidiary of Microsoft, they only licensed it to MS to PUBLISH the game on the 360.
Now compare that to the copyright license of Quantum of Solace, the current James Bond game:
This is what it reads like when an IP is licensed to a second party.
Now back to possible reasons why Mass Effect was released for 360 and PC only. You can rule out copyright reasons, as you can see above.
So, let's wrap things up: I agree, we can't say whether or not ME 2 will come for the PS3, if there will be a simulatenous release for 360 and PC and so on. I merely wanted to point out why copyrights are not the reason. And that's one thing we CAN say with absolute certainty.