Mass Effect 2 Potentially Soars to PS3
Mass Effect 2 has been somewhat of a debate over confusion during recent months. BioWare has neither confirmed or denied the existence of a PS3 version of Mass Effect 2. Many rumors have also suggested both Mass Effect titles coming to PS3, as EA now owns BioWare. It’s all so very confusing, and it isn’t stopping.
According to a listing on GAME, one of the UK’s and Australia’s largest video game retailers, Mass Effect 2 is coming to PS3. The listing both shows an unknown publisher and developer, and an expected release date of 10/01/2010 (which would be an obvious placeholder). The listing also has an item code of MASSEFPS3.
What do you think of the listing? Is it just a mistake? Post a comment below!
Thanks to Josh for the tip!
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October 10th, 2009 at 5:01 PM
eh this game wasn’t that good in the first place. Stop bringing games to Playstation that will lower our overall game ratings
October 10th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Nice, by that point we’ll be getting all the free content with it as well.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:34 PM
@ skullking123
Seems to me like a bunch of sour gr***s.
Mass Effect was by no means a bad game, aside from the vehicle sections, perhaps.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:34 PM
This seriously is only a matter of Time and not If.
There’s no doubt that the recent spike in ps3 sales since the price drop is causing this effect, the 360 is just about obsolete as is so it’s no wonder they would want to tap into the ps3.
I personally think Mass Effect would be better on the ps3 given blu-ray allows much more space and the ps3 has more power. Weren’t 360 owners having trouble with their systems crashing when playing the ME2 demo?
October 10th, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Well it is EA, but have we not been through this mess before with Left For Dead 2?
And doesn’t EA publish the game(Left For Dead)?
Sooo, it’s more likely a mistake but even if it’s not I can’t say I have any real interest in this game.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
@ ENiGMATiC_HiTMAN
I wonder why they’d bring the game over to the PS3, since the first one was a 360/PC exclusive.
I’m wondering the same thing about Dead Rising 2. PS3 fans didn’t play the first one, it just doesn’t make sense to bring the sequel over. As good as Mass Effect is, I don’t know if it belongs on the PS3 after being established as a 360/PC exclusive. PS3 owners will get an incomplete experience.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
I don’t know, the fact that it says “To Be Confirmed” all over the page makes me think it PROBABLY isn’t confirmed.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:53 PM
@megs1120
I personally could care less TBH, but the numbers make the decisions; of course we’ll here how M$ has these rights and blah,blah,blah in the end it’s them wanting to make money and if turning Mass Effect into a multiplat title then they’ll do it it has happened.
….and if this is true then how are we getting an incomplete experience?
If they’re working on ports now that are slated for next fall then we’ll be getting improved graphics, all the DLC for them up to that point for free so I have hard time seeing how we would get an incomplete experience.
Of course this is one of those issues where 360 fanboys will rant and debate but in the end money does the talking.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Small site, no confirmation. I wouldn’t put money on it but here’s to hoping.
Worst case scenario we can just play it on PC.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
@TimPV3
Don’t believe it then, i’m skeptical, but they’ve been bringing this up so much at random times over the last year to keep me intrigued.
Sony shook the gaming industry with their ps3 price drop and a big majority of game developers are doing what they can to get games over on the ps3 because as it looks for the foreseeable the ps3 is the way to go unless M$ can launch a reboot of the 360 with a better media format like Blu-ray they’re done and we’ll keep seeing a trend where game developers slowly start favoring the ps3.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
@ ENiGMATiC_HiTMAN
What I mean is that if you started playing Mass Effect 2 or Dead Rising 2 without having played the first one, you’d be missing out, not that the port would be inferior. In the case of Mass Effect, it’d be odd for the PS3 to get two-thirds of a trilogy with a continuous story line. It’d be like if Lucasfilm came out with Star Wars HD DVD and Blu Ray sets but the Blu Ray set was missing A New Hope. It wouldn’t be a complete experience, and there wouldn’t be much of a point to it.
October 10th, 2009 at 7:01 PM
since EA love money i think it’ll get port to ps3 eventually
October 10th, 2009 at 7:05 PM
@megs1120
Ah my bad, I was talking with the idea of both games coming over and I do believe if they don’t want to bother porting the first one then they shouldn’t bother with bringing Mass Effect 2 over.
But knowing that each Mass Effect will play based off of the previous ones game progress I would assume if this were to be true that we’d without a doubt get Mass Effect 1 bundled with it.
October 10th, 2009 at 7:17 PM
ME was a great game and I would happily buy it again if they decided to port it to PS3. That was the only reason I didn’t want to sell my 360 because I knew I wouldn’t be able to play this game or the next game in the series. Yeah it’s on PC but my PC couldn’t handle it.
October 10th, 2009 at 7:23 PM
@UltimaChocochu
I think this situation is different than Left 4 Dead. Namely because Valve is lazy and won’t take the time to learn the ins and outs of the PS3’s architecture [even though ol' Gabe said they would after the lousy port of Orange Box]. The PS3 version of Left 4 Dead 2 was likely dropped because Valve didn’t feel like doing the port themselves and EA didn’t want another Orange Box/Bayonetta situation after trying to do the port themselves.
Bioware is a different story though. They’ve already been working on Dragon Age Origins on the PS3 and have commented on how they enjoyed learning the strengths of the hardware. Couple that with the fact that they’ve thus far refused to acknowledge Mass Effect 2 as a 360 exclusive says that a PS3 version is at the very least being considered. Then there was that Sega leak where Alpha Protocol was Compared to Mass Effect [had the Sony guy been hands on with a playable version of ME2?].
I think it’s entirely possible that it could happen. Some little hints could be chalked up to typos or coincidences; but everything together is starting to paint a picture that suggests it’s more likely to happen than not.
October 10th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
The situation is different. Valve is not owned by Electronic Arts, however BioWare is.
October 10th, 2009 at 8:08 PM
@Mendax
I’m dead on with your thinking brother. lol!
October 10th, 2009 at 9:09 PM
@ Jonathan Leack
read: one of the UK’s and Australia’s largest video game retailers..
small site my ass…maybe to the US but the US is not the world.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:38 AM
I’ve always found it sus***ious that during MS’s conference they never touted ME2. They showed L4D2, Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell, Alan Wake, Shadow Complex, even Metal Gear Raiden and FF13 (both multiplatform), but the supposed “exclusive” Mass Effect 2 was reserved to the show floor. A game that was well-received critically, and sold well.
Couple that with the fact that EA now owns Bioware, and EA is known for putting games on as many platforms as possible. And that BioWare’s Dragon Age is on both systems.
On this last one, I could be wrong…but I don’t think MS has claimed ME2 at any recent event…much like it doesn’t claim LP2, Dead Rising 2, Tekken 6, or most other multiplatform games (save MW2…it can’t afford for that game to not be associated more heavily towards the MS brand).
I don’t know about this site…but even before they showed this…I’ve been suspecting this game could find its way on the PS3. Whether or not part one makes it way or not, I think it’d see good sales…as long as it doesn’t come out much too late. ff it comes out next fall as opposed to the 360’s launch in Q1, fewer people will pick it up since they’ll be more focused on the newer games of the fall.
October 11th, 2009 at 6:21 AM
@ Jonathan Leack
i live in australia and Game is HUGE!!!! it is one of the leading game selling businesses in Australia and is also undoubtably the quickest growing video game businesses in aus. they have been popping up everywhere and none of the other game companies have come close to matching it.. so it is in no means a SMALL SITE!
@ Megs1120
just because a previous version wasnt on the ps3 doesnt mean people wont buy it.. look at the metal gear solid series!!! originally a nintendo exclusive, moved to playstation but people still bought it in the masses, and now its going to be on xbox as well, but i guarantee it will sell a large amount of games to the xbots even though they have never actually had a metal gear solid. same goes for a lot of games, conkers bad fur day and banjo kazooie both left nintendo and went to xbox, yet those games still sold (even though they were lousy games!). i mean honestly if a new mario game (or some other massive nintendo game) went over to ps3 (HIGHLY DOUBTABLE) are you saying that you wouldnt buy it because you didnt know what happened on the first one.. just wikipedia it and tada you know what happened!
games changing consoles happens everywhere we look and just because the first one wasnt on a system, doesnt shoot down the fact that the subsequent games wont be!
October 11th, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Its a rubbish RPG game! Nuff said! I dont want the first 1 let alone this 1.
Theres only 1 kind of role play worth looking into, and it ends with bodily fluids being splashed everywhere. And tbh there is only 1 game from the 360 id love to see ported over and thats Dead Rising 1. I played it when i owned a 360 (shhhhh i was just trying it out, then threw it out) and i thought it was great. As long as u dont have to switch the console off in the middle of the game for the save to register id buy it in a heartbeat to play again. Nothing quite like piling into a mass of zombies with a great big f*** off lawn mower and watching the heads n limbs fly everywhere lol.
October 11th, 2009 at 10:21 PM
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October 18th, 2009 at 6:13 AM
nice shot, i like it!
Sincerly,
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