Spore to be PC Only, For Now

Joystiq reports the news that, for the time being, Spore will be only on the PC. This, despite Will Wright's hopes that it would see publication on the Wii, 360, PS3, Gameboy, DS, and PSP. EA seems to be wanting to 'get it right' on the PC to begin with, though, and is discounting the game's publication on those platforms at this time. From the article: "The Wii reference may be a direct result of UK magazine NGamer's recent article that suggests Spore is coming to Nintendo Wii in Spring 2007. As it stands, Wright's team is '100% focused on finishing Spore on the PC and PC only.' That said, you'd have to be pretty foolish to believe Spore will remain exclusive to any format. Like The Sims before it, Wright's latest project will likely invade every screen -- television, computer, mobile phone, etc. -- on Earth."

Comments

In other news...

[UbuntuDupe]

PC gaming is dying out. It's totally a niche market now.

Mac?

[carlivar]

What about Mac OS X? Yeah, I know, boot into Windows. Bleah.

EA...

[Dance_Dance_Karnov]

If it sells at all, this will be on every platform at some point. EA ports damn near every game to every platform.

Spore will Bomb

[MBraynard]

The game is way, way too unstructured in it's sand box design. This game is going to wind up being just like Black and White in that it has some incredible features but will fall flat for being just not fun or particularly competitive.

You heard it here first. And since it will be a flop, you are not likely to see it on any other platform.

Will Wright being who he is, he can have flops here and there. I just hope he returns to the Sim City series and gives that the attention it needs.

Re:Spore will Bomb

[Brunellus]

Just like that other Will Wright bomb, SimCity.

Re:Spore will Bomb

[Dr. Eggman]

I disagree, up until the Space phase, the game is very goal oriented. At the pond your goal is to eat enough food to divide and not be eaten. WW compared it to "a version of pac-man," albeit with upgradable abilities.

Creature phase centers around fullfilling your needs which include food, ect. until you are able to mate and then continuing to enhance your creature until you max out its brain capacity and move on to the civilization phase. I don't remember what he compared the creature phase to, but I would say it sounds a bit like the Sims (need fullfillment.)

Civilization phase has two big parts, tribal and city. Your goal is to eventually conquer your planet and develop a ufo to move onto the space phase. Tribal was compared to populas and City was compared to a simplified Sim city, though little was given on how to accomplish your goals other than "both military and diplomatic player styles" will be able to conquer this phase.

Finally, Space phase still has plenty of goals to work towards with upgrading your UFO and participating in a number of "mini-game" type senarios involving first contact, terraforming, ect. Really, it's not until space phase does it truely become a sandbox and you have the ability to revisit prior phases with all the ufo tech you've accomplished.

Re:So PC means no Mac?

[johnfink]

Apple did it themselves. Perhaps not originally, but still.

Hi, I'm a PC.

And I'm a Mac.

Re:Gameboy?

[LiquidCoooled]

Didn't you know, Spore was due to be initially played on the gameboy?

Once you adapted beyond the single celled organism strong electromagnets in the cartridge would active drawing together a Beowulf cluster of gameboys.
This multi cellular organism would then continue to grow evolving and adapting to the body parts of hundreds of children per organism.
Once it reached a critical mass the rate of growth will slow (until measured in limbs trapped per hour) and will enter a cocoon state.
Emerging from this fetid rotting mass will be a small group of supergeeks built from the blood sweat and tears of a thousand helpless gameboy addicts.
They will go on to become EA programmers.
Immortal, work hungry and with no need for sleep the title will at last be released on other platforms within a couple of work shifts.

That was the plan anyway, damn ESRB.

Re:Mac?

[grazzy]

It's ok. We'll forgive you if you switch now.

This contradicts postings on The Sims2 boards

[WillAffleckUW]

There they speak about how it will be released for the Wii, PS3, and xBox360 most likely three to six months after coming out for PC. They also talk about how they always release the Mac versions a few months later (they just released Sims2:OFB for the Mac six months after the PC version).

No postings there to contradict any of this.

Therefore, the conclusion should be that it will be released for WinXP on schedule, and have console versions shortly thereafter.