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Rumour: EA Doubts ME3 Will Sell, No ME Trilogy

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on September 27, 2012
The following rumour comes from a source who has proven to be correct in the past… I threw some questions out in the ether and the response to the whole...

The following rumour comes from a source who has proven to be correct in the past…

I threw some questions out in the ether and the response to the whole ME3/METri thing appears to be “EA did not expect Wii U owners to buy Mass Effect, anyway, so no point in porting over three games. If ME3 sells gangbusters, they’ll consider it a proper summer home for Mass Effect.” ShockingAlberto, NeoGAF

We’ve all heard that EA have kinda fallen out with Nintendo after the whole Nintendo Network/Origin deal fall-through, so this rumour wouldn’t be surprising at all. Third party support on Nintendo platforms is a more modern “chicken and the egg”, where third party games don’t sell, but that’s generally as there aren’t any good third party games to buy! Loads of third parties are jumping on board the Wii U, its just a shame EA are taking a more cautious approach.

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NintendoMan
NintendoMan

I'm sure ME3:SE on Wii U will look and play great. But it doesn't make sense not to bring the other two ME's too. An eShop release at least.

Guymelef
Guymelef

not surprising. it would take a long time port all three games to Wii U, not to mentioned that they hired another developer to do the port of ME3 to Wii U. but i don't mind - i'm still getting the Wii U version. i've played ME and ME2 so would love to see it on Wii U.

nfzeta007
nfzeta007

The only problem with this approach is after playing the last installment in a story based game fewer people will want to buy the first two, especially if EA took this sort of stance in the first place people may not even buy ME3, i know i'm not buying it anymore because of the trilogy so ME will miss me entirely.