Mass Effect 4 Won't Be Xbox One Timed Exclusive, Development And Other Details Revealed - Insider

Find out how long has the newest Mass Effect been in development.

[amiga-man]

Why would it be? especially with PS4 dominating sales.

[TheWatercooler]

Exactly. There's no way they would cut out the major audience of the PS4 even for just a little time.

Besides when Mass effect 4 finally releases. Xbone will probably just be a distant memory. PS4 will be dominating that much

[Ryan741]

Or Sony bankrupt. Let's hope neither happen.

[dirkdady]

@ryan

I don't see Sony going bankrupt anytime soon considering they have $14-18 billion in cash and short term marketable securities (see link below).

Also Sony has assets worth around $150 billion. They are loosing money but it would take many decades for Sony to truly exhaust all resources even if they were to loose $ every single quarter.

Compared to Nintendo who has $7 billion in cash and short term with $15 billion in asset for comparison. For reference Apple has $25 billion in cash and securities.

On the other hand Microsoft exiting the console biz might bring about another - what many called the "golden age of video gaming" during the PS2 era where small to mid sized dev could make risky games with smaller upfront investment on a single console. Currently the entire middle class has dropped out with only indie and AAA dev shops.

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[u got owned]

I think I will get this on PS4 assuming it performs better in the console. It will be weird to play my first Mass Effect on PS4 since I played the last trilogy on Xbox. Can't wait for tis game, one of my favorite franchises.

[Automatic79]

@ugot

Still playing on Xbox One with the awesome voice commands.

[Tctczach]

Tomb Raider says "Hi!".

[the_dark_one]

Lots of money says "Hi!"

[medman]

@tctczach
You mean the Tomb Raider that is also being developed to perform on last gen hardware? Even though it's launching late 2015? Uncharted 4 says "Hi!". Now that's a hello we can believe in!!

[Tctczach]

@the_dark_one Haha. I'm not denying the money.

[badz149]

the DLCs will! trust me.

[joab777]

Really? They have Tomb Raider, got Ubisoft to dumb down AC:Unity, still have a deal w/ CoD, and who knows what else.

It just means that MS didn't try this time.

[DOMination-]

Yeah because Unity runs so well on ps4. I think thats one conspiracy you can put to bed. If Unity ran at 1080p it would not be able to handle 10 fps

[joab777]

I don't think so. I don't think it was optimized very well. I could be wrong but I honestly think it could.

I havnt had any issues with lag at all, except the occasiona instance, so I'm lucky, cuz i guess others have, but if Ubisoft is guaranteeing A divi on game like what's been shown, I dunno.

[Omran]

who said it will be exclusive

[joab777]

Many thought maybe b/c it used to be an Xbox exclusive that they may have paid to get it early.

And we can't take anyone's word as gospel this early.

[Omran]

I trust shinobi, but maybe there is something happening behind closed doors who knows ! money talks but I hope it will be multiplatform

[DOMination-]

It will be exclusive for five days through EA Access

[Regis]

I don't like that you still have to pay for the full game or have it when its in the vault which will be a long time.

[Baka-akaB]

That would be stupid . it will probably get some exclusive dlc and anticipated EA access however ... wich i dont mind anyway

[xX_Altair_Xx]

This may be the PS4 exclusive that will make everyone 'rage'? You never know...

[LaChance]

EA & MS are best friends. Don't think so.

[DOMination-]

Rage 2

Its kinda in the clue.

[Max-Zorin]

That would be stupid.

[Mikey Mike]

Red Dead II will make everyone rage... LOL

[True_Samurai]

If we're talking EA access then yes it will come to xbox 5 days early in a trial

[BiggerBoss]

Shinobi normally knows what hes talking about, and hes a huge Mass Effect fan. If he says 100% not happening, then i believe it

Not quite sure why people thought it would be though

[MCTJim]

Your last line says it all. No one ever said it was a timed exclusive. It was all speculation..pure and simply it was FUD spread by the rumor mongers who get off on this type of stuff.

[Spotie]

Or perhaps based on recent history and a certain company's propensity for doing just this sort of thing?