Mass Effect: An FPS project called “Corsair” almost saw the light of day on the Nintendo DS

Game news Mass Effect: An FPS project called “Corsair” almost saw the light of day on the Nintendo DS

It is therefore at the bend of a interview with the MinnMaxShow channel we learned that the Bioware studio, voiced by Mark Darrah, former producer at Bioware, had worked on a Mass Effect game on the Nintendo DS for a while

It had to be a DS game, it had to be first-person, you were flying around a ship. We had to locate it in a part of the galaxy where the laws are less valid and which has not yet been fully explored. – Mark Darrah, former producer at Bioware

It would be some kind of combination of Privateer and Star Control. You should have been independent, a bit like Han Solo’s character, but not a Specter. You could have flown around, picked up cargo, researched this information, and sold it to the Human Alliance.

We understand that the action should have taken place in Terminus Systems, an area beyond the reach of the Council and the Earth Systems Alliance. On board his ship, the player could even have participated in space brawls. However, the project quickly encountered some concerns, some of which were economic.

All we had was start the flight controls, but the rest of the game we hadn’t worked out, we were still trying to figure out how it worked from a flight perspective.

The problem is, the economy of the Nintendo DS is just terrible. That was the problem in the end. We knew how to make great games, but not games that all control their gears. It didn’t make sense. EA predicted that we would only sell 50,000 copies. – Mark Darrah, former producer at Bioware

This economic concern is due to the manufacturing price of the DS cartridges and the selling price.. A difference that is considered insufficient, especially since the costs for development and localization have to be amortized.

Unfortunately, this type of complication outperformed the project. The latter then began a transformation on mobile phones to Mass Effect Infiltrator, a third-person shooter for iOS, Android … and Blackberry!