Mass Effect 2 Xbox 360 exclusivity in doubt?

EA has today refused to comment on questions surrounding its deal with Microsoft to “handle future publishing for Mass Effect”.

Earlier today EA confirmed that it is to publish sci-fi RPG Mass Effect for PC in May 2008. In the official press release, Frank Gibeau, President of EA’s Games Label said: “EA has struck an agreement with Microsoft to handle future publishing for Mass Effect. We are looking forward to releasing Mass Effect on the PC this Spring and brand new titles in the future.”

VideoGamer.com contacted EA to ask five key questions relating to the “future publishing for Mass Effect”:

Will the PC game include the Xbox 360 DLC?

Is the May release date worldwide? Will the EU release be any different?

Can you give us any further details of the agreement between EA and MS regarding future publishing for Mass Effect?

Does this new agreement limit what platforms future Mass Effect titles can appear on, or is the franchise now free to appear on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC?

Frank mentions “brand new titles in the future”. Is he talking about future Mass Effect titles, for example Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3?

Unfortunately EA issued a standard “no comment” to each question, which will do nothing to stop gamers speculating that Mass Effect, which we gave a perfect 10 in our review late last year, will be coming to the PS3 at some point, and that future Mass Effect titles will be going multi-platform too.

Indeed, Xbox 360 exclusivity has been in doubt ever since EA bought the game’s developer Bioware. EA is famous for bringing its games to as many platforms as possible to maximise sales and potential audience.

We have, however, been promised a response soon, which we’ll report as soon as we get it.

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