Will Wright: PC Spore vs Console Spore Again

What platform will 'evolve' Spore?

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Will Wright: PC Spore vs Console Spore Again
The chances of a PS3 or Xbox 360 version of Spore are looking slimmer than ever.

Speaking to Game Daily, Spore creator Will Wright (who is still acting as a consultant to EA, despite having left to focus on Stupid Fun Club) has said that Maxis can either do a PS3/360 Spore game or it can focus on more PC content.

"I know there's been a lot of talk about it internally", Wright said, "but for us it's really an opportunity/cost issue. You know, we either do that or we continue creating new applications on the PC or we kind of go into the handheld arena. I can't specifically say what the plans are right now, but really all these things are measured against each other."

Eh? "We keep doing PC apps or we do console or we do handheld, depends on the cash"... ah, now we understand.

A 'next-gen' console version began to look even unlikely as Wright indicated that Maxis has a lukewarm attitude toward developing the game for the PS3 or 360 because of their lack of unique features. "We can't do everything at once, so we have to say, 'What platforms would it kind of evolve the fastest on?' So you can sort of look at a straight port to the PS3 and Xbox 360 and basically have the same game we have on the PC... or we could say, 'What can we do on this platform that will help us explore different parts of the design?'"

Wright went on to point to the Wii, which Maxis is already developing Spore Hero for.

SPOnG, for its part, would like to see a 360 or PS3 version of Spore, given that the main issue that hamstrung the PC version - DRM - could be circumnavigated on console.

Source: Game Daily
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Jerry 27 Apr 2009 21:04
1/3
This appears to be a pretty cool game. Would like to see it on ps3.

[28 Apr 2009, 08:50: Message edited by 'tyrion']
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amanda Tapley 7 Sep 2009 23:26
2/3
spore will not play on windows vista. I don't know why. I tried downloading the demo and no icon appeared. if I can't even play the demo, then what chances of the full version working on a windows vista? I looked at what I need to play it and it said "pixalshading" or something. I really wanted to try out this game fully, but it just wont work and it looks like the best game ever created! But all I can do now is just watch it on youtube. Watch other poeple play it while I'll never get to! That's all I can do. Windows vista is no good for games.
Amanda Tapley 7 Sep 2009 23:32
3/3
I hope so! This game is the best game ever created! It's like you're playing god! I would love to play it. @Jerry
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