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Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?
Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?
firingsquad - December 11, 2007
Submitted by -THE-RAY- (272) at 1:50PM PST on December 11, 2007
An agreement has been made for Mass Effect 2 and 3 to both be published by Microsoft as well, with BioWare and EA to be listed as developers rather than publishers. BioWare, EA and Microsoft have yet to officially announce Mass Effect 2 although the sales and critical acclaim have been high so it would seem to be a likely possibility
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2ixaarii posted on Mass Effect (Xbox 360) at 7:02PM PST on December 23, 2007. RE: Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?@feelmyring,
I'm so shocked we don't really know about these deals for sure. On one side such deals should guarantee MS a big win, on the other EA would probably want to go multiplatform with a cool IP. I would say that MS 'owning' Mass Effect is more probable, except I've been hearing even Michael Pachter saying ps3 mass effect and I'm assuming he doesn't just throw speculations around if they're impossible by contract.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 444 ]bids
2feelmyring posted on Mass Effect (Xbox 360) at 6:56PM PST on December 23, 2007. RE: Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?bids
2ixaarii posted on Mass Effect (Xbox 360) at 6:05PM PST on December 23, 2007. RE: Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?@GoblinMerchant,
But the big question is: does this guarantee Mass Effect doesn't go ps3? Would EA accept this or would rather go with other new IPs? Or are they forced to make the trilogy?[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 444 ]bids
1GoblinMerchant posted on Mass Effect (Xbox 360) at 3:51PM PST on December 11, 2007. RE: Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?@-THE-RAY-, didn't we already know from day 1 that Mass Effect was the first of a trilogy? I'm sure Microsoft entered a contract with BioWare before they described the series as a trilogy. Such contracts are still in effect even after a change in control.[ Guru ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 260 ]bids
11-THE-RAY- posted on Mass Effect (Xbox 360) at 1:50PM PST on December 11, 2007. Article: Microsoft To Publish Next Two Mass Effect Games?An agreement has been made for Mass Effect 2 and 3 to both be published by Microsoft as well, with BioWare and EA to be listed as developers rather than publishers. BioWare, EA and Microsoft have yet to officially announce Mass Effect 2 although the sales and critical acclaim have been high so it would seem to be a likely possibility[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 272 ]
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I don't think he's privy to the contracts between BioWare and MSFT. Maybe they (BioWare) have an exclusive for Xbox for ME1, but 2 and 3 are up in the air. There is absolutely nothing that has changed that would cause Patcher to throw out his "prediction" that ME would head to PS3. If anything, EA buying BioWare would be that much more reason for them to stay exclusive to Xbox, as far as I know, there are no giant PS3 exclusives from EA.
While we don't know for sure about the ideas, I don't think that BioWare would give up the last 5 years of development time that they've put into the ME trilogy right away to EA. I don't think that any previous deal would be affected by the EA acquistion; rather, their deal probably takes effect regarding IP developed after a certain date. If that includes ME, we don't know, but I'm very certain it doesn't.
If anything, I think we should be discussing the possibility of KOTOR 3 being multi-platform.