Casey Hudson will save Mass Effect

This forum ever making sense is about as good as me dating Jennifer Lawrence.

Well, there are numbers and there are perceptions. Right now, there are perceptions from a very vocal crowd that MEA was terrible or at least didn't live up to the standards of the OT. And, tbh, I know several people who don't do message boards or gaming reviews who have found it not as much to their liking as the prior games.  They're not the sort to chant "death to BioWare" or anything equally stupid but they might reconsider how they spend their dollars.

Regardless of whose "fault", it's not unusual at all for someone to point a finger and say "blame him".  Then they get rid of that person and pretend the problem has been removed and they can move forward.  This may not be the case here, exactly.  Nothing indicates Flynn was fired but this smooth swap seems a little too coincidental for my tastes.

Regardless of outcry, the OT sold immensely well.  Even people who hated the last 10 minutes of ME3 still generally loved the game overall.  Again, back to perception, Hudson can be the "problem solver" and likely learn from the ending of ME3.  For the record, I think redoing the ending probably wasn't a cost-effective strategy for BioWare and so they dug in their heels.

i think faceman can answer this far better then i can but MEA sold well. It's a critical success. And bioware/EA called it a success in the earnings call and that they are.looking towards the future of the franchise. The more i.think about it, like with the immediate aftermath of the Anthem reveal, i do not.think perception=reality. Though it still sucks loosing Flynn.

I don't disagree with you.  As I said, there's perception and there's dollars.  A lot of people are vocal about MEA being a failure and then these articles come out, plus rumors, and EA does nothing to straighten things out.  Perception says MEA was a failure and the studio was practically shut down as a result.  Reality isn't the point.  Perception is the problem.

EDIT: Look at the post directly before mine.  That's perception in action right there.  The fairly low post count suggests that poster hasn't been here all that long so the PERCEPTION that MEA was a failure is out there.

According to EA in their dialogue with their investors, they're very positive about Bioware and Mass Effect Andromeda and future Mass Effect titles. This is from the transcript of the Q4 2017 Electronic Arts Inc Earnings Call:

Okay. Well, I'll answer the first 2 and we'll go from there. The first thing is Mass Effect is an interesting title. It was in development for a really long time and represented a lot of the great things that BioWare is known for: story, size, depth, breadth, imagination. And while overall the aggregate review scores were lower than we would have liked, we did have over 100 reviewers scored the game at 80 or higher. So it represents a fan base that's very passionate, looking for very particular things and many players found exactly what they're looking for and some players did not. With that said, we believe Mass Effect: Andromeda delivers a rich, deep experience, which celebrate what makes the franchise great: wonderful, beautiful, deep, rich world, amazing combat and engaging fast-paced multiplayer. New multiplayer content is continued to be released, and new content kind of arriving overall more regularly. So we're very happy with kind of how BioWare is doing, how BioWare is treating Mass Effect. And our expectations for Mass Effect are still strong for the future and the franchise overall. In terms of the new IP, the choice to move the new IP and what happened with Mass Effect are completely unrelated. The reality is, is we have a creative process. As a company, creativity and pioneering is really important for us. Now -- innovation in games is important more now than ever. And as a leader in the industry, we see it as our responsibility to innovate. And as part of that creative process, and I get to be involved in that creative process, we recognize that there was so much more opportunity in a connected network, social world to do some things in the new BioWare game that had never been done before and we don't think anyone is going to do any time soon. But by virtue of our network, our cross-platform presence and our scale, we think we can do that. And we chose to give the team some more time to deliver against that innovation because we believe players are looking for the kinds of things that we plan to put into that game. And so we're very happy with BioWare. BioWare has continued to support Mass Effect, and the new team is doing some amazing things and you'll hear more about that in the months to come.

finance.yahoo.com/news/edited-transcript-ea-earnings-conference-022737730.html

In as far as sales figures - nobody has them. Estimates have it as the 2nd best launch of the series...
https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/6b8vw1/no_spoilers_andromeda_sales_data_thread/

and $53 million in sales (of the premium edition) was pushed to the next quarter. 

Now turning to net sales to discuss our business drivers for the quarter. Net sales were $1.09 billion, above our guidance of $1.075 billion and 18% higher than last year. This excludes $53 million of net sales related to premium additions of Mass Effect: Andromeda that we had originally expected to capture in -- to be captured in Q4. They will now be captured in Q1.

finance.yahoo.com/news/edited-transcript-ea-earnings-conference-022737730.html

Deluded haters will pretend to have sales figures (they don't) and they'll pretend that EA has washed their hands of ME:A (according to what they're telling their investors - they haven't). 

I disagree that Mass Effect is beyond saving. If Anthem is a success, Hudson will, rightly or wrongly, get a lot of credit (Anthem also started off as one of his projects). With the next Dragon Age already in the pipeline, post-launch of Anthem is the time to start floating ideas for the game they'll work on after that. Unless BioWare is planning another new franchise (or Jade Empire 2! Would love to see that), another Mass Effect game would be the perfect choice. Might not see it for another 5 years, but dead? No. There's still a lot of potential in the franchise.

I'd personally guess 2020, but 21/22 isn't a bad guess for sure. I'm just thinking EA will want a launch title every year.

'18-Anthem
'19-DA4
'20-MEA2

Although there is that secret Star Wars new IP incoming. Anyone remember if that was Bioware specifically or just EA?

I'm no sure if Bioware is working on a Star Wars title,but Visceral Games is and it is supposed to be released in the 2018  time frame

www.gamesradar.com/everything-we-know-about-viscerals-star-wars-game/
www.pcgamer.com/viscerals-star-wars-game-similar-to-uncharted-and-1313/#article-comments

I just wanted to answer YES even though the question was laughable. Guess I am having a good morning.

No prudent option like "We shall see"?

I guess OP you're not the type of guy for reasonable answers, it's just black or white. The world doesn't work like that.

I know that... and where did you even remotely get the idea from what I posted that I was denying that does happen in corporation?  It's still not proof that he was fired.  So, I am choosing to take his announcement at face value.  It's true, until it's proven untrue.  Innocent until proven guilty... basic premise of our legal system.  If you have proof that he was fired, prove it.  If not, at least have the grace to admit that your (or in this case suikoden's and Dutch's) suspicions do not constitute a "superior" theory to anyone else's here.  Unless his announcement is proven to be untrue, any suggestions that it is untrue are just part of a "smear" campaign on his good name.