Why the focus on making a new game?
They have the best game made in the history of gaming. So in my opinion they should make a "remake". The entire baldurs gate-saga in an enhanced infinty engine. Adding minor graphical enhancements, subraces, classpackages or kits, possibly alternate backgrounds(like how the tiefling fighter grew up in candlekeep or the elven mage etc), customizing the paperdoll, new portraits(npcs should look the "same" but illustrated to match the style, adding sidemission and depth to the main mission, resolution and so on. No new game but enhancing the old.
How about that?
Brilliant. I believe that Baldur's Gate should be remastered professionally and yet keep the best of the Infinity Engine. And it always puzzled me about how I could be evil at the start of the game with Gorion as my pop. And while we are on the subject of Baldur's Gate getting modern day enhancements, a small group of people are currently working on creating a mod for Dragon Age in which you get to be in Baldur's Gate 2.
So I get the feeling that if no company/corporation updates Baldur's Gate 1&2 soon: Some fans are going to do it for free.