Spore out in time for "holidays" News

PC Wii News by Ellie Gibson

1 February, 2008

Electronic Arts has revealed it plans to launch evolution sim Spore by the end of the year.

CEO John Riccitiello told a conference call, "We are not announcing dates for any of our titles."

However, referring to Spore he said, "We will tell you it's got to be before the holidays.

"This is one of the titles we pay enormous attention to for all the obvious reasons and we are very, very bullish."

Now then, King John didn't make any mention of "Europe" there. And he said "holidays" rather than "Christmas", so could be we'll have to wait until next year.

Spore, you may recall, is the latest project from Sims creator Will Wright. It's in development for PC, and unofficially but rather obviously the Wii too.

There's a veritable plethora of videos, some screenshots and a preview by some bint over on the gamepage, so why not take a look?

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dsmx

01/02/08 @ 11:24

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IT was supposed to out last year, then it was march this year, now it's holidays this year. Why do I ge the feeling that it won't be out till next year?

UncleLou

01/02/08 @ 11:28

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Now then, King John didn't make any mention of "Europe" there. And he said "holidays" rather than "Christmas", so could be we'll have to wait until next year.

As this is a PC game, I doubt it. And if, we can still import. :)

mingster

01/02/08 @ 11:28

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because your a glass half empty kind of guy

Saladin

01/02/08 @ 11:35

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Daikatana Mk. II

Kyle

01/02/08 @ 11:39

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Bint, lol...

redlander

01/02/08 @ 11:41

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I have stopped caring.

Gl3n

01/02/08 @ 11:44

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Most delayed game of recent times surely.. i seem to remember the first date given was spring 2006

miiiguel

01/02/08 @ 11:46

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What about a review of Kingdom Under Fire ?

monkie_king

01/02/08 @ 11:52

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miiiguel: it's in the RSS feed already, 5/10

Mildew

01/02/08 @ 12:04

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Correction - "Electronic Arts has revealed it plans to launch evolution sim Spore by the end of the year 2049"

I'm quickly losing interest in this - it's taking an age to get here.

Guv

01/02/08 @ 12:06

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was very excited about this game... FOUR YEARS AGO!

Saladin

01/02/08 @ 12:08

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To be honest, I think they dropped the ball by letting Wright announce this so early. People have gone through various stages of excitment, anticipation, boredom and now dissatisfaction.

Folk will be far too jaded to actually enjoy it once it gets a release. If it gets a release.

Garwoofoo

01/02/08 @ 12:08

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This basically means they'll release it for Christmas whether it's ready or not, and patch it later at their leisure.

Saladin

01/02/08 @ 12:12

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Not patch.

Expansion Pack.

the_dudefather

01/02/08 @ 12:35

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gee it sure is cynical around here

bigbadbeasty

01/02/08 @ 12:39

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I want this game, but they are really testing my 'love'.

Saladin is right, they should have kept it quiet until perhaps the end of last year.

bushwod

01/02/08 @ 13:36

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I will have changed jobs, moved house and produced a baby in between hearing about this game and actually getting to play it!

Jheronimus

01/02/08 @ 14:25

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Well, it was rather ambitious to begin with... It's a shame it's being dropped back again, but I'm still looking forward to this game!

Feanor

01/02/08 @ 17:36

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"To be honest, I think they dropped the ball by letting Wright announce this so early. People have gone through various stages of excitment, anticipation, boredom and now dissatisfaction.

Folk will be far too jaded to actually enjoy it once it gets a release. If it gets a release."

Spore is clearly being treated by EA as a Sims like property, so the vast majority of potential customers still know very little about it.

ScoutTech

02/02/08 @ 15:28

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Is this no longer coming for Xbox?

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