2 August 2006
Ferry

Spore coming to Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 says game creator Will Wright

After EA was previously planning Spore to go from PC to handhelds. In an interview this week Spore creator Will Wright was quoted as saying:

“We’re looking at all the platforms for Spore, because we’re thinking about Spore as a franchise, not as a PC game. We’re going to do the PC game first, but really, what we’re trying to launch is an entire franchise that will be all across platforms.”

“It will probably take very different forms depending on the platforms. We might even pull out parts of the game, so you might be playing part of the game on a handheld platform, you might be playing the entire game but maybe more avatar-based on a console. The consoles are getting kind of different now, I think there’s a really interesting distinction between the Wii and the Xbox 360 and PS3. Something like the Wii offers a lot of interesting creative opportunities for the editors, with the controller.”

He closed off by saying: “That’s been one of the ongoing problems with consoles: they don’t have a mouse. The mouse is a very good random-access device for putting on the screen; a console controller really makes you want the game avatar-based, so you move on character — that’s why RTS games suck on consoles. With Spore, about half the game is avatar-based already — the creature game and the space game — and it would be pretty easy for us to make the intermediate levels avatar-based, so from the beginning, we thought about how we could move Spore to platforms including consoles.”

Coming in 2008, here’s Spore’s fun-looking trailer:

Quotes via Spong

PS: Got the PC/Mac version? Try these fun Spore cheats.

2 August 2006 15:22
Jeff Miller FCDG

When you get around to mobile, give us a call!

2 August 2006 15:46
supadupagama

Jeff, EA already announced back in June that they are developing a cell phone version of Spore

29 August 2006 23:41
Dyl pickle2

I am a major fan of this game but…..I looked at a picture of the cover of the game Spore and it said E.A. 2006. So i thought it was coming out in 2006, so can you please tell me if when Spore will come out?

30 August 2006 02:10
supadupagama

Dyl pickle2, very late in 2007

30 August 2006 08:31
Y.V.Reetesh

Spore is the game that will make me Play such sims type of games[:D] and it being for the PS3 and all consoles is really great thing…and if People from one console can visite the worls of other consol people.. that would be miuch more fun!!

4 November 2006 08:12
ian andrews

is spore comming out for xbox 360 if yes when

27 November 2006 05:09
Dylan

Does any one know when this game is coming out

7 January 2007 06:59
Greg and ross

We think that looks really fun and we are dieing 2 buy it on the xbox 360

7 January 2007 07:00
Greg and ross

We love xbox 360 please say when it is comin out

10 January 2007 12:15
dcwil477

Hell yea I can’t wait for it to come out for the xbox 360. I do have a problem with the statement though. Will Wright said that console RTS games suck, well he works for EA and look what they dished out for the xbox 360. We got Battle for Middle Earth 2. I do understand that the post was made before the game release, but it should have been updated.