Dragon Age 2 - Call of Duty's Audience Welcome Bioware says

Fernando Melo, senior producer, has spoken to Now Gamer about this according to this thread at the rpgcodex. Fernando did say this about the subject

We have data that shows there are a lot of people that enjoy playing RPGs although they won’t necessarily call them RPGs. They’ll play Fallout, Assassin’s Creed and even Call Of Duty, which have these progression elements – you’re putting points into things – but they don’t necessarily associate that as an RPG. So we think that if we expand that out we’ll attract a much bigger audience.”

There's a thread on this in the Dragon Forums on the Bioware Social Forums.

Do you think Bioware will succeed? And is an RPG defined by putting points into things?