EA spoke in detail about the success of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, revealing that its ongoing success has surpassed the studio's expectations.
There aren't many series out there right now that don't have avid fan bases of varying sizes clamoring for their favorite games to be remastered or rebooted. However, very few needed that treatment more than Mass Effect. The original trilogy was celebrated and then somewhat tainted in the eyes of many via the addition of Andromeda.
EA and BioWare breathed renewed life into those first three games by remastering them and launching the Legendary Edition earlier this year. According to EA during the company's quarterly investors' call, Mass Effect Legendary Edition has already outperformed what its creators expected from it. “The remaster of the first three Mass Effect games, reignited the passion of fans around the world, driving sales performance well above our expectations,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson revealed on the call.
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BioWare has already revealed it is working on a new Mass Effect game, bringing in people who worked on the first three games to help create it. The team may well do the same sort of thing Toys For Bob did with Crash 4. Ignore what came after the original trilogy and act like the other games, in Mass Effect's case Andromeda, never happened. Its teaser and screenshots have teased Andromeda won't be ignored entirely, though.
There's also no telling who might show up in a Mass Effect game. The series has already shown it isn't afraid to bring people back from the dead, which means almost anything is on the table in Mass Effect 5. With hype for the series at an all-time high thanks to Legendary Edition, anticipation for a fifth game is hot right now. Hopefully, EA and BioWare have something to show us soon.
It wasn't all Mass Effect talk during the investor's call, of course. Wilson also had some exciting tidbits to share about the future of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. EA has already hinted the popular Star Wars game will be getting a sequel after boasting it had been played by more than 20 million people. Battlefield was also a hot topic on the call as Wilson dropped another hint that the series will have free-to-play elements in the future.
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