"Right now the Mass Effect team is focused on the game at hand, Mass Effect 3, pushing to make the game bigger than the second installment by using larger skill trees, weapon mods, and more than two endings. "
Considering Mass Effect 2 was a step back compared to Mass Effect 1, they better do all of that and then some - just to return to the level of detail of the first game...
On the subject of console ports, they may both be ports, but the first was at least a decent port. Those huge fonts in the second game just feel weird when you sit next to your screen. Not to mention the completely dumbed down skill trees...