Dragon Age Coming in EA’s Next Fiscal Year

GameSpot is reporting that Electronic Arts has confirmed during its recent financial conference call with analysts that Dragon Age will be released during their next fiscal year (April 2008 through March 2009).

For the first half of the year, Sebastian expects growth in console gaming to be a big story thanks to the release of high-profile games like Devil May Cry 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Metal Gear Solid 4. However, Sebastian expects the PC market to gain prominence after June, buffeted on the strength of releases for Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Starcraft II, as well as Electronic Arts’ Spore.

Will Wright’s intergalactic life sim isn’t the only EA game Sebastian is looking forward to. The analyst listed a number of other interesting titles from the publisher slated for its next fiscal year, which runs from this coming April through March, 2009. In addition to a new Burnout, Sebastian listed the BioWare role-playing game Dragon Age, an as-yet unconfirmed F1 racing game, and a new Fight Night on the company’s expected fiscal 2009 release schedule. Rock Band 2 also appears on the list, suggesting Sebastian believes MTV Games and Harmonix will turn their new rhythm series into an annualized franchise (or nearly annual, at any rate), and that they will continue to enlist EA’s help in distributing the title.

Let’s hope this means that BioWare will stop being so tight-lipped about it.