Electronic Arts’ chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen has said that the next entry in Bioware’s sci fi RPG series, Mass Effect Andromeda, will launch early 2017 during a technology conference earlier this week.
Jorgensen made the remarks during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference when asked to rattle off the publisher’s upcoming slate of games that weren‘t sports titles. Saying that the game would launch “in our fourth quarter,” and given that EA’s financial year ends March 31st each year, that would put the release date in early 2017.
Here’s his answer in full:
“So, we’ve got a great year ahead. For the first time I’m trying to tamp down Wall Street expectations than build it up. Good position to be in, I guess. We’ve got our Battlefield first-person shooter game coming in the third quarter, and our third-party title that Respawn, our partner, built, it’s called Titanfall, it’s the second title that they brought into that brand. Both of those are first-person shooters and will be targeted around both the fast, action-driven shooter market, as well as the strategy-driven market in the quarter. We have all our sports games. We have ourMirror’s Edge runner game, that’s first quarter [this year, on May 24], and then we have Mass Effect, which is a sci-fi action game, in our fourth quarter. So, big year ahead and we’re pretty excited.”
So close and yet still so far away.
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