No, because the game does not have to come after. I see people saying 'well, they'll have to pick a canon ending'. That is the only detail you have on the game. 'We have already said that the Commander Shepard trilogy is over and that the next game will not feature him/her.
'To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here,' BioWare community manager Chris Priestly wrote on the company's forums.
Doing so would imply it was a sequel to Commander Shepard's story.īut that doesn't mean it will be a prequel, either. BioWare does not want you to refer to the next Mass Effect game as Mass Effect 4.
