Reports are coming in that Mass Effect 2 will be simultaneously released on both the Xbox 360 and the PC in the first quarter of 2010. Rather than following the original Mass Effect's exclusive release on the Xbox 360, to then be released on the PC at a later time, Electronic Arts has decided to launch the game on both platforms at the same time.
Jesse Houston, Mass Effect 2's Associate Producer has stated:
"We learned a lot from building the PC version before, and having built it six months later there was a big difference. So we actually took what we learned from PC and put it back into 360." Houston continued on to say: "Fundamentally, we want you to have the same gameplay experience, but just with the difference in controls. This time round, doing it at the same time for a sim-ship, we can control the differences much more smoothly because it’s the same team building it now."
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