What is your ideal + your realistic expectation for the release schedule of future Dragon Age games?

Anthem, so far as I can tell, will continue to be solely in the hands of BioWare Austins at this point. That leaves the Edmonton studio working on the other big name titles (primarily Mass Effect and Dragon Age). We've already gotten some speculation from both Jason Schreier, and even one of Anthems producers (I can't remember his name, though I think it started with Mike), that BioWare has a few people prototyping the next Mass Effect game. So my guess would be that they'll probably oscillate between both franchises, with maybe 5-6 years in between each title.

As I've said before, I think these types of games are slowly moving towards being generational titles, rather than yearly/bi-yearly titles akin to Assassins Creed or CoD. Considering that it's mostly the Edmonton studio pulling the weight, this is probably a realistic expectation at this point.

Again, we know from a (pre-Covid) EA conference call that DA4 was due to release sometime after April 2022. That meant Fall 2022 (most likely).

But with the pandemic and everyone still working from home (since March), I'm guessing it'll get pushed into Q1 2023, but no later than the end of EA's financial year (Mar. 31, 2023). We'll see...

On the plus side, they won't have to worry about supporting older gen consoles.

That's a good point... fingers crossed!

Starfield's a bit of a wild card. Some are saying next year, some are saying 2022. 

Well from what I’ve seen so far early access seems like a good idea however I am waiting patiently for a final game to come out

I also believe with all this time there’s huge pressure on the da team. I have high hopes

I’m going to assume da4 will be built based o the limitations of next gen. What I don’t understand is what can this next gen do what the ps4/x1 can’t. Just looking at bg3 and I’m not seeing anything that couldn’t be run in x1?

Can't remember if it was David Gaider or Mike Laidlaw who brought this up, but one of them talked about the troubles of having the DLC's be the point to which teases for the next game are revealed. On one hand, you have the potential of generating hype and speculation about what's to come, but on the flip-side, you also make it so that players don't truly get the REAL story unless they buy said DLC.

While I can see DA4 ending various plotlines (such as the one with Solas), I also wouldnt be shocked if it created new ones; maybe even in DLC.

I'll probably be writing my masters thesis when DA4 comes out and that freaks me the fuck out. How inconvenient for me

ya, I'm going to need the game to drop before my acceptance to Medical School. 

Anytime before I turn middle-aged here, BioWare. Literally. Do not make me wait until I am 40 for the next game.