BioWare’s once PC-exclusive RPG, Dragon Age Origins, will hit the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The information stems from an interview with lead designer Brent Knowles, who told VideoGamer that the game will “show up on consoles after the PC release at some point.”
The reason for a console release is quite simple. Knowles is aware that games on consoles, particularly the good ones, make money. From the interview:
We think about these things a lot and we know that the console market is an important market as well. And it just makes sense. There's not a lot of RPGs like this available for console players. There's a lot of people that the console is their primary gaming platform, they aren't playing on PC ... We've kept consoles in mind throughout the development cycle so I think we're going to have a really strong offering to the console players.
Knowles was unable to pin down a timeframe for console release other than iterating its eventuality after the PC release.
Dragon Age Origins looks awesome and is currently slated for early 2009. Hopefully,
Fallout 3 and
Fable 2 will give me my fix in the meantime.
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5:09 PM on 10.16.2008
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I'm glad Bioware is moving more onto consoles.
Rubbish.
Seriously though nice try BioWare but if your gonna claim to be making it like baldurs gate one and two then I wanna go romp around the countryside with my brother and smack the crap out of kobolds.
They're not putting in multiplayer though so, Fail.
I'm hopeful Bioware can return to the Baldur's Gate PC RPG glory but times have changed and so has the company I think. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, as some of their cross platform games are still really good, I just won't be believing all the hype I've heard about this game until I get my hands on it. Comparing it to the PC RPG greats of old, automatically raises caution signs for me.
The lack of multiplayer however, is a sign of hope for me. A great game doesn't need it, at all. Its encouraging to see Bioware focus on the single player aspect of it, which I feel is especially important for an RPG.