With Mass Effect coming to a Nintendo platform for the first time with Mass Effect 3. Shepard, the protagonist of the games, will only be enjoyed by Nintendo fans for one game. (unless they release the first two later)

“So first, we don’t want to make ‘Shepard 2′, or Mass Effect 4 with like, ‘oh there’s no more Shepard but you’re a soldier in the universe’. So this will be a very, very different context for sure, and nothing has been decided on the rest.” – BioWare Montreal producer Fabrice Condominas

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