Dragon Age Coming to Consoles in Late 2009

BioWare has confirmed that it plans to bring Dragon Age: Origins to gaming consoles and even added that it is scheduled for release during the 2009 holiday season. The PC version of the role playing game is set to arrive earlier, sometime in the first half of the same year.

Dragon Age was unveiled by BioWare back in 2004 and for a long time we didn't know anything regarding the title, although many speculated that the developer was looking to create a game that would be the spiritual successor of the Baldur's Gate series but without using the Forgotten Realms setting that had worked so well in the past.

In 2005, Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, the leaders of BioWare, mentioned that “there will be other versions that will be on other platforms” but an official announcement regarding the release on consoles, along with more details about the game, arrived only at this year's E3 trade show when BioWare launched a trailer for Dragon Age.

At the moment, the game is confirmed to come on the Xbox 360 and on the PlayStation 3. A Nintendo Wii version is highly unlikely considering that the game requires a lot of computing power. It will also be interesting to see whether the game will receive any addition on consoles or gamers will be dealing with a simple port. Traditional role playing games, which include tactical combat elements, tend to do well on consoles, although most of them have an Eastern setting.

BioWare's most recent project, Mass Effect, a space set role playing game, was initially released on the Xbox 360 and a significantly improved version arrived on the PC after a delay of a couple of months. Now BioWare is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts and the publisher is famous for being really console neutral.