A Mass Effect Trilogy Collection Probably Won’t Happen

EA's Patrick Söderlund has dashed hopes of a Mass Effect Trilogy collection for new consoles, saying the publisher feels its resources are better spent elsewhere.

While Söderlund didn't completely rule out the possibility, he told Game Informer "I won't lie and say we haven't looked at it, but for us, it's about weighing where we spend our resources. Is it better for them to be working on a completely new IP, which you know BioWare is, or should they be remastering a Mass Effect?"

The executive said that some re-releases are appropriate and pointed to Naughty Dog's The Last of Us: Remastered as an example of one he particularly enjoyed. However, he cautioned that nostalgia sometimes clouds how people remember games and returning to them may not always be the best idea.

"I don't know about you, but sometimes when I go back and play a game, you want the memory of what they were at that point in time when you played them," Söderlund explained. "If I go back and play the old games, I think, 'Really?!' Was this what it was? Because in my mind it was amazing."

BioWare developers have previously discussed the possibility of a remaster and the developer revealed the name of the next game in the Mass Effect franchise as Mass Effect Andromeda and announced a planned Holiday 2016 release date earlier this week during EA's E3 press conference.