Spore is six months away

By Tom Bramwell Published 25 October, 2007

Seedy duplication soon.

Will Wright has said that Spore is about six months away from release on PC, suggesting that Maxis' ambitious life sim is on track to launch in line with publisher Electronic Arts' most recent estimate of early fiscal 2009.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live in comments reported the day after he collected his BAFTA Fellowship Award for a lifetime of being wicked, Wright said that the game would be "roughly available in six months time", and is currently undergoing "extensive testing".

Spore, which we previewed at Games Convention, sees players design and then nurture their own life-forms through various stages of evolution, beginning at the very origins of life and eventually journeying across space. Speaking at the Leipzig trade show in August, Maxis' Patrick Buechener hinted that the developer's attention would turn to console ports once the long-awaited PC version is released.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • bushwod #1 4 years ago

    So, we'll se it on Xbox in about a year then?

    Sigh...

  • asharkman #2 4 years ago

    i would have thought 6 months from now would put it in an early 2008 release slot?
    Maybe my calander is wrong though...

  • Yeevle #3 4 years ago

    2009?

    Teach me not to read proper. Durr.
    Edited by 1 at 25/10/07 @ 10:08

  • skillian #4 4 years ago

    Unsure about Spore.

    The idea is good and it looks like it might be a great technical achievement, but whether it'll actually be fun to play is something I'm not convinced of yet.

  • fattulip #5 4 years ago

    This is one of those games I was really excited about. The more i've heard about it (and the screenshots I've seen) have dampened that excitment. I reckon it might all be hot air, I hope to be proven wrong.

  • hjarg #6 4 years ago

    Fiscal year 2009. Accountants use different calendars, y'know. Beginning of fiscal year 2009 means actually end of first/beginning of second quarter for us normal people.

  • Razz #7 4 years ago

    Great! Perhaps they can use the time to actually make a fun game out of it! ^_^

  • McLovin85 #8 4 years ago

    it said EA's fiscal year of 2009. company's financial department work in fiscal years so EA's probably starts in April and finishes in March the following year. therefore right now they are in fiscal year 2008.

    (at least that is what i think, called their fiscal year 2009 only 4 months into 2008 seems a bit weird but i reckon it's probably right)

  • Nithron #9 4 years ago

    Fattulip: In general, the percentage of hot air a game is constituted of, is directly proportional to the amount of hype surrounding it.

    So no, you probably wont be proven wrong, even if all the reviewers say otherwise.

  • indotoonster #10 4 years ago

    I predict no more than 7/10.