Mass Effect Trilogy Release Date for PS3 Revealed, DLC Detailed

<p>The <em>Mass Effect Trilogy<&sol;em> was announced a while back&comma; but there were many questions raised in its wake&period; Namely&comma; the various pieces of DLC that come with each version &lpar;PC&comma; Xbox 360 &amp&semi; PS3&rpar; and the fact that the PS3 version of the trilogy didn&&num;8217&semi;t have a set release date&period; Today though&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blog&period;bioware&period;com&sol;2012&sol;11&sol;01&sol;ryan-warden-an-update-on-the-mass-effect-trilogy&sol;">thanks to an update made by Bioware Edmonton&&num;8217&semi;s Ryan Warden<&sol;a>&comma; we now have a release date for the PS3 version of the trilogy&sol;<em>Mass Effect 1<&sol;em>&semi; which is now revealed to be December 4&comma; 2012&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; the whole DLC situation gets cleared up&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Xbox 360 &&num;8211&semi; <em>Mass Effect 1<&sol;em> will come with all of the DLC that it originally shipped with &lpar;not the add-ons&rpar;&comma; Cerberus Network comes with <em>ME2<&sol;em> and <em>ME3<&sol;em> contains all of the DLC it originally shipped with as well&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>PlayStation 3 &&num;8211&semi; Original <em>Mass Effect<&sol;em> will come with the Bring Down the Sky add-on&comma; <em>Mass Effect 2<&sol;em> will have Cerberus Network&comma; Kasumi &&num;8211&semi; Stolen Memory&comma; Overlord and Lair of the Shadow Broker&period; <em>Mass Effect 3<&sol;em> stays the same&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>PC &&num;8211&semi; Same as the above Xbox 360 version&comma; but will include Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station for free&period; Warden notes that the <em>ME1<&sol;em> DLC is free even if you were to buy the standalone game&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Still not sure if I like the different versions of the trilogy coming with different DLC&comma; but they are including the games as they originally released on their respective platforms &lpar;hence the PS3 version of <em>ME2<&sol;em> having all of that add-on content&rpar;&period; Also&comma; instead of just neglecting to say anything about the PS3 version with the initial announcement&comma; why not let people know that some work needed to be done in order to port <em>ME1<&sol;em> to the PS3&quest; Not saying anything at all regarding its situation could be seen as not caring as much about your PS3 fan base&comma; but maybe that&&num;8217&semi;s just me being pessimistic again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At any rate&comma; we now have definitive release dates for the Mass Effect Trilogy as well as details on which DLC is coming with which version&period; Better late than never right&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;