Sadly, when Microsoft bought the publishing rights to the first Mass Effect, they also guaranteed that the 360 would be the best platform for this trilogy.
Or a Windows PC if you have the rig to power the game.
True enough. I remembered to mention the PC earlier when talking about the game, but forgot it then.
I wouldn't be opposed to the motion comic approach if Mass Effect 3 comes to the Wii U but it would be awkward for newcomers. It's not the full experience, but from what I've seen of the comic in the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 it looks good enough for those who are not too serious about the role-playing story. Then again, why would those people be buying the third game in a series of long games if they didn't care for the first two.
Frankly, the motion comic in Mass Effect 2 on PS3 sucks. Sure, it gets the
barest of bones about the story across, but you lose all the flavor of the character interactions; all the smaller choices you could have made; the sidequests; and most importantly the
context of the few choices you
can make.
Take for example the character Wrex. Those who played the original Mass Effect will remember that you have to make a major choice with this character towards the end of the game. In the game, you've known and talked with this character over the course of 20-30 hours of gameplay. You've learned about his culture, his ideals, and the major crisis of the Krogan race: that they appear to be dying out due to the race being rendered seemingly infertile. When the choice comes, there is weight behind your actions and your actions throughout the game determine how you can deal with Wrex.
In the Mass Effect 2 motion comic, you're introduced to Wrex as a character that joins your party (along with several others), and then 2 panels/3 minutes later, you're asked to determine his fate. All the context, subtlety, and emotional weight of that scene is
gone. The player is never given a reason to
care about this scene or the choice they make. And that's what all
five choices in that motion comic are like. And if Mass Effect 3 comes to the Wii U,
that's what the motion comic will be like as well, only
worse because it would be two game's worth of such story condensing.