BioWare Had Plans For A First-Person Mass Effect Game On Nintendo DS

In 2012, Digital Arts launched BioWare’s third entry within the Mass Impact sequence on the Wii U. Whereas we have not seen Commander Shepard seem on a Nintendo platform since then, there have been apparently plans prior to this for a spin-off on the Nintendo DS.

Ex-BioWare producer, Mark Darrah, revealed numerous juicy details about the venture titled Mass Impact: Corsair throughout a chat with the YouTube channel MinnMax (thanks, IGN). The identical staff was additionally answerable for Sonic Chronicles: The Darkish Brotherhood.

“It was going to be a DS sport, it was going to be first-person, you’d fly round a ship…We had been going to place it out in part of the galaxy that was extra pirate-y and probably not totally explored.”

“It was going to kinda be a mix of Privateer and Star Management…You’d be impartial, you’d be extra like a Han Solo character, not a Spectre. And also you’d be flying round, selecting up cargo, exploring, and promote that info again to the human Alliance.”

The staff bought so far as the early phases of the flight management system, which it labored on whereas making an attempt to determine how the sport would match into the universe of Mass Impact:

“Just about all we had was the beginnings of the flight controls, we didn’t have the remainder of that sport put collectively…We had been determining the way it labored from an IP perspective, nonetheless.”

In the long run, the primary roadblock was the pricing of DS cartridges. For Mass Impact: Corsair, BioWare would have been required to pay round $10.50 for every sport card – with DS video games retailing on the time for $30.

This may have resulted in little or no return for the event and localisation prices, and EA predicted the sport was solely going to promote about 50,000 copies, in accordance with Darrah.

Whereas this DS launch by no means noticed the sunshine of day, a part of the staff ultimately swapped over to cellular improvement and launched Mass Impact Infiltrator.

Would you’ve got been thinking about enjoying a Mass Impact sport on the Nintendo DS? How a couple of Mass Impact sport on Change? Depart your ideas down under.