Makes sense. They have been more or less expanding on the same game for what now... over 10 years? It will be good for them to get the reative juices flowing into another direction.
There won't be a BG4 no matter how well BG3 does, because the BG story is as done as it can possibly be.
Story was done as it can possibly be after Throne of Bhaal and that didn't stop them
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That's a very terrible outlook after the game when all signs point to becoming a massive success and Swen has openly said within the past week or so that WotC are VERY happy with BG3. So I don't see why they'd downsize and give up on D&D.
They also said that "There's big pressure from inside the company to consolidate because they grew too much, too fast" and then he added in another context that he's "not sure if he ever wants to work on something this big ever again".
Tis true, that with the company growing this enourmous layoffs might happen at some point or another. I can't be bothered to listen to the interview again, but my impression was that they want to work on multiple projects rather than pumping all into one mega game again. That's what they did before D:OS1 success. After pumping out two all company encompasing cRPGs after another, it might be a smart move to allow smaller teams to pursue more reasonably scaled projects for a bit.
