Bioware have announced via their Facebook page that Mass Effect 3 has been delayed until 2012. If you cast your mind back a few months you will recall many of the AAA titles scheduled for Christmas 2010 slipped to early 2011, Mass Effect 3 is the first (and very probably not the last) title to follow the same pattern. The post on Facebook reads:
Mass Effect 3 will be released in the first three months of 2012. The development team is laser focused on making sure Mass Effect 3 is the biggest, boldest and best game in the series, ensuring that it exceeds everyone’s expectations.” – Casey Hudson, Executive Producer Mass Effect series.
Source: Facebook
Cerberus64
Oh well, hopefully the PSN will be up by then… ;)
TURRICAN-808
lol
blarty
Talking of Batman, I remember when Arkham Asylum got the delay announcement, everyone believed it to be because it was utter pap, but they were just getting the game right, and the delay was warranted as the game was an absolute diamond, so not all delays mean the game is going off the tracks.
gordon_strange
Sad face/tear
2012 will come and I’ll be super excited, and then a comet will land on my head/plague of locusts will destroy my crops/some other first testament end of ages shit will happen and I won’t get to finish it.
maneorix
I’m glad this got delayed, end of 2011 seemed to soon to the original release date of ME2.. I want to play ME3 soo bad, but moreso I want it to be brilliant, so more time should equal more polish. Yes please!
BIGAL-1992
Hardly surprising. Crysis 2 was suppose to be released last year but got pushed back to march, and Killzone 2 was suppose to be released in 2008, but got released in Feb ’09.
matthangzhou
Let’s just hope that it doesn’t start a trend of other developers delaying theirs. As long as I get my Skyrim on 11/11/11 then I won’t even notice I don’t have ME3 as Oblivion probably had my most play time of any game ever.
popem09
Why must bioware do this to me! On the other hand though I’m sure I will be able to appreciate the extra time put into it.
GTRsannin
No rush i just hope they finish it before it comes on sale so it’s not too buggy
SpikeyMikey23
I’m glad this has been delayed! Plenty of time to finish ME2. Was trying to prgress yesterday but powercuts kept knocking my ps3 off! I blame the psn hackers. Bastards
hazelam
if it means they wont be recycling the environments as much as previous mass effect games, or worse, dragon age 2, then i don’t mind a delay.