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.

15 January 2007 15:30
wut?

dude spore looks good but it looks like its going to be like black and white where they announced it to be released in 2005 and it was released in like late 2006. and i think that they should make the game for xbox 360 as much as like the PC as they can.

5 February 2007 16:40
josh

do space ships come and abduct creatures from your planet and is it just basicaly free play

17 February 2007 16:22
Steve

I can’t wait for the game to come out!!! I just got a 360 a few days back and I was looking into games and I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard spore was going on 360!!!! I hope its released sooner then later.

8 March 2007 19:54
K.M.E

i heard 500+ stories about spore hitting next gen consoles, and i can tell u its a 99.9% chance that “spore” will come out for pc,360,wii,ps3,DS,psp,mac at the same time it hits the pc. NOTE he said it will be a new franchise, so it may hit next gen as a new “name” and “game style” in the near future.

if anyone knows anything else, my xbox live gamer tag is RattlingACE 1 and e-mail kedwards@telus.net

so drop me a line online or by email and i will get back to u.
Thank You

23 March 2007 17:58
ju

i lov the graphics for spore and can’t wait to get it for my ps3

23 March 2007 18:08
jared

I heard alot about Spore and it sounds very awsome. if it comes out for the ps3 and 360 i will totaly buy it.

2 April 2007 04:40
Cherristo

when the f*ck is spore coming out on 360?

2 April 2007 04:43
Cherristo

Can you get a mouse for Xbox360 because other wise it will be much to confusing to play spore

3 April 2007 22:16
sccrqn819

um…how about for MAC?!? they are getting a lot more popular, and are supposed to be getting more game based then before. i would love to play this game, but i’m not going to buy a new comp or new console just so i can play.

4 April 2007 02:37
Cherristo

do you know when it comes out on 360???????