There's no EA for consoles. The earliest could possibly be at full release of PC version but that seem very illogical. If they're putting 100% into finishing the game for PC how can they be working on a console port at the same time? Sure it would be possible but unlikely. Realistically a console release would be 2.5 years from now, no sooner and possibly much,much later.So by release they mean the full release, not ea?
Remember they have no real deadline for finishing the game. They can keep working on it in EA for a decade if they want.