Will Wright says Spore around six months out

by Justin McElroy on Oct 24th 2007 9:30AM

We're still not getting our hopes up too high, but we thought that you should know that Will Wright told the BBC's Radio 5 Live that Spore was fully playable, in final testing and was "roughly" six months away from release. Considering that we already knew the game wasn't due until at least April of 2008, this news doesn't come as a huge surprise, signs have been pointing to Spring of 2008 for quite some time.

But who knows what could go wrong between now and then, right? It's a simulation of everything that's ever happened, for crying out loud. Your entire life story is contained within, as well as the life story and memories of everyone you've ever known. Forget about looking forward to playing it, we're just hoping Wright finishes it before it becomes sentient and kills us all.

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Tags: maxis, PC, spore, willwright

Reader Comments (23)

Please pee on me Will Wright!!

that's exciting to me :)

I'll believe it when I see it.

Can't wait to get me hands on this...

I'll need a new computer to play it.

Probably not. Wright's games have always been friendly to low end computers.

Better than when in May, they said it would be delayed til SUMMER 2008.

and another 6 mo till on a console

It is my professional opinion as a human being that this game should never be on a console.

Tough shit - the DS and mobile phone versions are coming out the same day as the PC version. And by the way, Spore is perfect for consoles.

I don't do much gaming on PC anymore.

Depending on how fleshed out the DS version is, I might opt for that, followed by the Wii version at a later date.

The DS version will focus on only one phase (probably Creature.)

"Tough shit - the DS and mobile phone versions are coming out the same day as the PC version."

Now, I may have missed something, but I thought that they said they were ONLY releasing the PC version at first, and THEN they would work on other versions...anyone able to prove me wrong?