EA Suggests BioWare Is Making An Action Game

Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare may be making an “action” game, EA hinted during its Investor Day briefing today.

CFO Blake Jorgensen said the action genre can be lucrative and used the below slide, which seems to suggest BioWare is moving into the genre, to illustrate the point.

BioWare is currently developing Mass Effect: Andromeda and an unannounced new IP. This title may be in the action genre, explaining the developer’s presence on the slide. It’s also possible that EA believes Andromeda is more of an action title than an RPG.

Motive Studios, which is also listed on the slide, is assisting with Dead Space studio Visceral’s Star Wars project and working on its own IP. Jade Raymond, the former executive director of the Assassin’s Creed franchise at Ubisoft, leads the studio.

Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment recently announced that it is making a third-person action adventure title set in the Star Wars universe.

Jorgensen suggested successful action games could generate as much as $400 million in incremental revenue. This figure increases if or when additional games are released in the series.

EA should have some new announcements at E3 in June. Mass Effect Andromeda launches in 2017.