Mass Effect News Thread

A long shot...what if this is referring to the PlayStation Meeting on September 7th? It wouldn't surprise me if MEA supports "Neo" and "Scorpio" consoles.

Meteorologically speaking it is...

blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2012/09/20/when-does-autumn-start/

I know, though this comment by Alistair (on the Secret IP) and the "Soon" comments in that thread make me think it's worth keeping an eye on...
Maybe a Secret IP tease at this event...? Maybe more (brief MEA tease)...?

Alistair McNally ‏@al_McNally
Seems like there is going to be a lot of goings on going on September 7th. #getiton


It's an outside chance for sure, but enough of one that I'd keep my eye on that event.

Other than the PS event (likely the Neo reveal), the only other event I'm aware of is Apple's on the same day.

EA has been pretty tight with Microsoft, so IDK... 

Shadow Realms is the only semi-reveal I can recall from BioWare that wasn't at an event. 

We'll find out Wednesday I guess


Unless maybe Sony can make a deal with a specific franchise. Like ME and DA are allied with Microsoft, but the New IP is partnered with Sony? Is that possible?

Deals like that tend to be per game kinda thing. Though once a game gets known or tied to a specific console it tends to stay that way for awhile. CoD for instance didn't go over to Sony as special partner will this current generation and that's almost entirely because MS literally stopped pursuing that style of marketting.

Past that you tend to have developer/publishing having a tendency bent towards one platform or another for whatever reason. Bethesda definitely has a leaning towards MS due to MS helping them a lot in the past when they where much, much smaller. Getting Morrowind, and Oblivion onto consoles was a huge boost to there company and there ultimate success there seeing now. Plus they make games for PC/Windows so it's just kinda a natural connection for them.

Kinda same for BioWare minus the MS direct help except they for awhile there made stuff almost exclusively for Xbox, that either eventually made it to PC or was also on PC. Immediately after NWN they made KoTOR, and Jade Empire which where Xbox/PC. With Dragon Age it was a PC/Windows oriented title so Xbox partner ship made more sense (also EA was in the picture at that point).

Mass Effect wasn't even on PS3 until ME3. I mean you have ME2 that eventually came over just prior to ME3 as kind of a 'hey guys look, ME3 is coming out on your platform play ME2 to catch up!'.

So in short, it's 100% possible you'd see it as a playstation conference. It's just generally unlikely due to relations regardless of money changing hands. The original game was funded and published by MS (though obviously BioWare was working towards it prior to that). Only really made it's way to PS because of EA's involvement.

Michael Gamble ‏@gamblemike
Spent 3 days hiking through the desert. Tomorrow I go back to game making. So many parallels.

Well there were some in the EA Play trailer already

Now hold on, maybe he got lost going to Mother Maggie's "Sunny Farm". You know, like Brian and Stewie.

We do know that PS Neo Dev Kits are definitely out in the hands of developers. Scorpio was announced so they could get developers building for them as soon as possible, but I don't know if Devs have kits for them yet.

MEA will be released for both, I'm sure. Neo is said to be released either late this year or early next, so I imagine they'll want to get on that bandwagon. Project Scorpio won't be released until late next year, long after MEA's out.