The Mouth: PS3 Mass Effect – Microsoft's Loss
Does BioWare’s announcement of Mass Effect 2 coming to the PS3 finally show that Microsoft is letting its core audience down?
Is this the beginning of the end?
When Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 hits shop shelves next year, I for one will be picking it up and making it my definitive copy. Ignoring the fact that there will be no save game from Mass Effect 1 for me to import, this edition will no doubt bring with it a much more polished and visually impressive experience than the one I played through on the 360 earlier this year.
Bar this one little omission, the extra development time and higher capacity storage options the console provides will lead to a better, more polished and generally more satisfying experience. But where does this shift of previously exclusive titles leave the 360?
After confirming its dedication to the hardcore, despite showing a keen interest in upping the 360’s appeal to casual gamers (hello, Kinect), this latest move perhaps signifies a shift in the water for Microsoft.
For many years, it was the PS3 that had its exclusives constantly under threat, and Microsoft’s aggressive plays for the likes of GTA IV and Final Fantasy went a long way to convincing gamers the 360 was a real contender.
With the move of BioWare to EA, it was perhaps unclear at the time that this was reflective of Microsoft’s shift in its target audience. After all, the hardcore had generally already invested in a 360, it makes sense for the casual market to become the new area up for dominance – Microsoft has clearly begun pursuing it with that same aggressive edge.
The 360 only has a handful of exclusive titles that can be called ‘system sellers’, so does the release of Mass Effect 2 on PS3 indicate a change in the market away from the importance of these titles or a change in priorities for the 360? Let’s give the PS3 some credit and say Microsoft is perhaps dropping the ball and leaving its faithful audience hanging.
With Halo: Reach largely keeping the core happy, looking to the future the landscape has changed dramatically. Microsoft could be leaving behind the players that granted it the success it’s previously enjoyed up to now.
Leave them behind and the winds could change for the worse for Microsoft. Sony’s not likely to let any opportunities go to waste.
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I honestly don’t mind at all about ME2 going to the PS3. I’m happy that more people will get to experience this amazing world. Although, if ME3 is marred with the same bull as mafia 2 and every other multi platform release ( different exclusive content, higher/lower quality etc etc) I will be so severly disappointed.
Please, Please Bioware. I don’t care about any other game in existance. Make Mass Effect 3 the best of the trilogy and a fitting end. I want it to be a game that I could happily have as the last game I’ll ever play.
While I will certainly get a copy of it when it comes out, Bioware is not going to modify the assets for the PS3 version so you can pretty much expect the exact same 360 version and not a reworked version. (Sound will be 5.1 and not 7.1 like most ps3 exclusives and it won`t occupy that much of the blu ray disc.)
The added DLC and sumamry material is welcome but I would not put your hopes too high as this is likely to be the same scenario as the original bioshock.
Do you ever post anything positive about the 360? Just wondering. All I see are slag, doom and gloom stories and game reviews/previews.
For a 360 magazine you spend an awful lot of time speaking negative of the console and how it’s falling short of something to do with the PS3. And when you do say something positive it’s usually a backhanded compliment followed by some comparison to the Sony system.
The system has a lot of good points, you should try and focus on them sometime. It might mean you have to put away your PS3 bias but at least it won’t look so obvious and maybe someone who owns a 360 will actually be interested.
Why do you think that the PS3 version will look better? 95% of multi-platform games look better on the 360 and it was developed 360 first.
The PS3 version will fail in sales just like Bioshock failed. If you have a PS3 and a 360 then you’ve already bought it to the 360, If you have a PS3 and an OK PC you’ve already bought it to the PC. If you only have a PS3 then the fact that you can’t buy the first one will probably make you not buy it.
Mass Effect 2 on PS3 is going to be a year old when it comes out. We dont even know what the port is going to be like. Look at Star Ocean and how that ended up turning out for PS3 owners. (Hint) They got the worse looking one even though it came out a full year after the 360 version.
Well Well, let me be the first to say at this hour at least, My 360 has officially yesterday become obsolete!
the only reason why i had one was for this little gem called Mass Effect, oh and Lost Oddessey which i can’t play past disk 2 due to the peace of hardware that refuses to load the second disc with errors or that infamous message, please remove and clean disc!!!!
Now i’m not here to bash the 360, i’m hear to state something that was said wayyyyyyyyyy in the beginning when the current gen console war just started….
There was a black monolith launched that trailed behind since launch, it had zero games in the beginning, it lacked identity, love etc…..4-years down the line and what has happened, the lime light the 360 was so wonderully enjoying blinded it on site, microsoft stubbornly refused blu-ray players, they laughed at sony’s six axis motion controller and the toy cam for that matter, they said swapping discs is no big deal, charge for online, heck even laughed at the cyber place home…..poor nintendo got scolded for its too kiddy immature nature after all, 360 is the home of the hardcore…….mmmm here we are and things look like this…
the 360 devolved into the very creation they so openly and eagerly shot down every time they launched some thing big…..what is that someting big….Halo, i’m to this day so tired of that name that my ears ring when i hear the term halo, gears…very good, that other peter mole guy game…pfffttt please its the little paris ilton dog barking at your feet…..lets see…oh more halo….then what happens, Mass Effect….one of the greates stories ever told launches on this box…..and like a poor marksman microsoft misses the one true thing that to me atleast would have kept me bying 360′s even if it rrod a 100 times…why because of mass effect…..a story…an interactivemedium that like the LOTR is something so unique that would you miss it, you would have missed a big part of what this life…on this planet has to offer…..
now as this poor, pathetic useless (to many many 360 fanboys) black monolith rise to supremecy i can’t help but think to myself in a very fanboyish mindset…..we told you so, sony always run their races slow an pacy at the start, observing, learning and most importantly delivering on what is asked….and now, the ps3 is such a well balanced system, they have stuff for hardcore gamers on exclusive side that will keep us bussy for more than a decade, almost all 3rd party stuff comes to ps3 anyway..so what if we sometimes even miss a few grass, oh and the soft core gaming side….almost equal in quantity of the hardcore stuff…more so that the line up and even current stuff for soft core gamers on the ps3 severely outweighs the 360…without move even out yet…..i can go on forever……..so
to all those people in the summer of 2004 when ps3 launched……here we are today! and if news have not set in yet…yes we just welcomed one of the best games in gaming history to the Black monolith family aka PS3…..if you look in your trunk of goodies, you might start to notice, that all your great and bragged about titles has all but almost gone 360….the company microsoft you so loyally follow as all but delivered on their promises….oh no they have not….they just took your money, …and if i look in my trunk of goodies……i wont even name the titles still on its way…..
make of this post what you will…..but even you microsoft FB can agree that your commander and chief in gaming aka microsoft has just sold your very soul which is one of the games your base stood notorious and infamous for…oh and even more surprising is the response ms made when ME came to our camp……
..but WAR….WAR never changes……just glad i’m on the side i am now
For the first three years of the 360s life, it was the only console you needed to own. The PS3 didn’t even come close. But now, the 360 just seems to be dumbing down and relying on its low price and the millions of CoD fans who want early map access. I’ve got no doubt that Kinect will sell like hot cakes but it looks awful in the various video’s that are out there. With 3rd party publishers like Realtime Worlds going into administration, it won’t be long until every third party is multiplat. Microsoft just don’t have the first party talent to make anything better than what the PS3 now has to offer. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was all a build up to the release of the next xbox.
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