PC System Requirements speculation

In my experience, there is no such thing as a reputable "can I run it" type site.

Bio is no longer hindered by the old gen console hardware. The limited graphics memory prevented better visuals.

With the new gen and PCs, DX 12 will help in the performance and visual fields.  Plus, the new graphics cards with 4-8GB memory will
allow for much higher texture resolutions. I have no doubts regarding the visuals.... except the cost in hardware to generated the eye candy.

I expect my lowly Radeon 7700 with 2GB to do well = same as DA:I
 

Limited graphics memory may explain low-res textures or low-poly models, but not awkward animations or the plain weird lighting that's all over DAI. Also, just because old hardware might have to run on bad looking fixed "low" settings does in no way explain why there's trouble with the higher settings that were not meant for the old generation anyway.

The odd lighting/shaders, for example - you can test that easily with a dracolisk or the right kind of plate armor. Take a dracolisk to the crossing in the Hinterlands where all the refugees hang out, for example. Zoom in on its head. You will find the teeth looking rather normal. On other maps (Skyhold stables for example, if memory serves), they look like a cheap strip of plastic because the lighting/shaders do some really weird stuff there. Or walk with a shiny plate armor into the caves of the forbidden oasis. The sheen they catch in there is quite strange. I don't think it has anything to do with GPU requirement or old hardware limitations.

Remember the forced 30 FPS for cutscenes on PC - inexplicable unless they noticed too late that something in there was hardcoded for 30 FPS and they couldn't fix it, so they just forced 30 FPS instead to avoid the problem, whatever it was.

To me all this looks like BioWare had a lot of trouble working with the Frostbite engine, not just with the implementation of hitboxes and melee combat, but also with basics like surfaces and lighting. With a little luck they will have learned from their first round with Frostbite and things will go smoother with MEA.

If i remember correctly, the "December 2017" is only placeholder text until the official release date is made public. So, at this time, they're still shooting for Q1 2017.
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Presumably the specs for Battlefield 1 (also Frostbite) won't be miles off?

No. Battlefront launched with those kind'a graphics, those kind'a frame rates, those kind'a sounds. I could easily run Battlefront, so I know I could easily run Battlefield 1. I think that's kind'a the thing that a lot of people don't get. They are making these things for consoles only. Then handing them off to another company to make the PC ports of them. If a console can run it, surely if your PC is above specs of the console, you can run it, too.

Man, those 30fps cutscenes were killing me while playing DA:I. Hoping they don't make a return in ME:A.

spacev3gan  gamespot is full of mistakes, they put a Titanfall 2 picture for ME:A, and the release date is wrong, release period is Q1 2017, that's the only release frame we have right now. The game was in a playable state for a while now, nothing suggests it will release far later, like December 2017. 

As for the requirements, as other said, not much point looking into BF4, BF1 and SWBF. Best guess is around DA:I requirements and let's hope for a more polished game. The little footage we got at E3 was all in engine and it looks promising. For comparison, when DICE said "in-engine" for BF1 and SWBF, it's exactly what we got, so I think it's safe to assume the game looks and plays as good as in the trailer. At least they dropped the last gen consoles. 

I wouldn't worry about the release date, they've reiterated a number of times that it's still on track for early 2017.

Miada Gamal ‏@miada_gamal91 Aug 9
werent mass effect 4 supposed to be launched Q3 of 2016 😢😢?

Mass Effect @masseffect 9 Aug 2016
Mass Effect: Andromeda will now ship in early 2017. We want to take out time to create an amazing adventure for you.

They've mentioned they don't want MEA to distract from the releases of BF1 or TF2, so they're holding off showing more. From some other comments it sounds like they're taking a somewhat Apple/Bethesda approach to marketing - short, intense marketing campaign before release.

Short and intense marketing campaign just before release is not the usual approach EA takes, but I hope you are right.

Even with the newest GPUs, the prices have dropped considerably. AMD 480 and Nvidia 1060 offer NV970/AMD390 or even more than NV980(in some titles and DX12/Vulkan) for lower than 970/390/980 launch prices. It's a solid time for an upgrade IMHO.