Dragon Age: Origins coming to consoles

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BioWare's upcoming title Dragon Age: Origins is being touted as the spiritual successor to the company's classic Baldur's Gate series, returning the developer to its PC RPG roots. In an effort to reach out to as wide an audience as possible, BioWare has revealed that the game will be coming to consoles as well as the PC

"Yes. Dragon Age: Origins will be coming to consoles in the near future, yes," Dan Tudge, director and executive producer for the game, told Eurogamer.
Tudge hinted that console versions of Origins will arrive in late 2009, after the PC release - which BioWare is confident will be early next year.

Not much is known about the game at this point, though it will be set in a much darker fantasy world then BioWare fans are used to. The game features a number of different classes and races, with unique origin stories for each. And like any good BioWare game, moral choices will play a large role in the storyline.

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Tudge also confirmed what can be easily determined from the game's title: that Dragon Age: Origins is just the first part of what is expected to be a new franchise. "Dragon Age: Origins really represents three real key elements," Tudge explained. "One is obviously the origins stories. The other is the return to BioWare's roots. And the other one is the origins of the franchise, of the series. We've built the universe from the ground-up to be something we can base a lot of entertainment product in, and Dragon Age: Origins is really just the beginning."

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No specifics were given, such as platform or a release date, but Tudge did say that he hopes to have the console version out soon after the game comes to the PC, which is expected in early 2009. To state the obvious, we expect the game to appear on the PS3 and Xbox 360.