Will Wright involved in the future of Spore, consoles a possibility

Ex-EA employee and enormously popular developer Will Wright is apparently only halfway out of EA's doors. Talking with GameDaily, Wright confirmed his intention to stay on as a consultant for EA Maxis (the development team behind Spore). Saying, "I'm spending a certain amount of time every month actually working with the Spore team on future versions of Spore and expansions," Wright (seemingly for the first time) announced his plans beyond his work with upcoming venture, the Stupid Fun Club.

Additionally, Wright commented on the possibility of console iterations of Spore, frankly stating, "For us it's really an opportunity/cost issue ... we either do that [consoles] or we continue creating new applications on the PC or we kind of go into the handheld arena." Guess he forgot about that upcoming Wii title, Spore Hero! While we're looking forward to what Wright's next move is with SFC, it's good to hear the man behind Spore is still helping to develop the game moving forward. The money problem doesn't hurt either, eh?

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i would like to see console versions of spore. and the sims 3. pwease?

Your nuts if you wanna play these games with your game pad.

ps3 has keyboard and mouse support, actually.

@Ezio

Or you can play it in your PC or Mac.

nah my specs aren't good enough... well, they might be cause i bought a brand new lappy but still. call me crazy, but i prefer console gaming. and when i did try games, my computer slowed down BAD haha.

my old one, that is.

I think that one of the requirements for games is to use the lowest common denominator. Not everyone has a keyboard/mouse (I'm sure they do, but not on the PS3).

I remember this discussion with Unreal3. They said they didn't want to give anyone an advantage. I dunno, I think games should at least have the option there, but I wouldn't expect this to happen anytime soon.

Spore and The Sims 3 were made to support slow computers. Your computer must be as old as the PS2 if it can't handle those games.

Er, meant The Sims 2. The Sims 3 will be more system intensive as it's an open world game.

keyboards and mice can be bout for any console, who would do it though?

The wii's pointer could make a sims game possible.

Why bother? Spore was a huge disappointment.

He's sharing the same look of disappointment as well.

Spore was awful, so don't bother please.

off with his fucking head!

Do Not Want

Reinstalled it when I got my new rig last month and I played for like twenty minutes and haven't touched it since. Biggest gaming letdown so far of the 21st century.

Agreed. I'm not even sure if you can even call it a game it was so pointless. If it is one, then it's by far the most shallow and pointless game I've ever played. I'm just glad I didn't buy it.

I agree wholeheartedly. I was so disappointed, and so glad that I elected to play it at a friends house instead of buying it. Thank you Securom, for helping me avoid a terrible game.

Apparently you haven't played Empire: Total War then.

I didn't play Spore, so I can't comment on the gameplay. But when you have a game that's in devolopment for several years, gets lots of press about how it will be great, due to previous work, and then it comes out and it doesn't impress? People start wondering what the hype was and why the delay.

Any old PC gamers remember Chris Roberts and the Wing Commander games? They were great. So he tried Strike Commander - similar game style, but a different "take" on the genre. It had several delays, and when it came out, it also didn't impress. Duke Nukem Forever is going to have to give everyone an orgasm every time the play, or people will slam it.

I for one am not interested in Spore. The game came out last year, and it was not a big hit. Three or four months after its release, and it was dead.

Spore was a technical masterpiece and a gameplay flop.

Honestly, I'm not sure I'm still interested in what Will Wright is doing anymore.

He seems far more interested in building virtual worlds; or rather, creating the tools that let people build their virtual worlds-- but not actually putting a ton of thought into gameplay.

There's nothing wrong with giving people creative toys-- I love me some legos-- but they're not games.

If he were working on the creative tools behind map-maker programs, that would be incredible. If he were working on the design tools for a "[Genre] Maker" game, that would be stupendous. As a game designer, though, he's not very good at making experiences that are consistently fun.

I kind of got the impression, at least with some of the earlier interviews with Will, that Spore was an experiment with procedural programming. I was excited with the concept and less excited about the game that it was connected to.

With any luck he will move the lessons learned into something else, even The Sims4 would work well and give the user a lot more control without having to bust out the content creation tools.

I think the Sims 2 had the first touch of his concept when two sims had a baby, it was meant to combine the 'dna' of those sims and spit out a kid with features from parents.

"Still-EA shill and enormously disappointing wuss developer Will Wright."

:D Yay for Willy! "WE FREED HIM!"

I just want a realistic SimCity. Like, intensely realistic. The opposite of casual—I might almost need a degree to play. I already learned way too much about budgeting and taxes from those games as it is.

Isn't the point of the Sims games is to escape reality? Isn't that the reason we play video games in general? So no, leave the virtual world and the real world separate.

What? you are saying he is not allowed to like what he likes? thats awful.

Sims != SimCity

arrg im so sick of will wrights crap, why cant we take him into a small room and remove the door (ie what i do to my sims when i get bored with them or they dont do what i want to do!)

Spore is a failure. Next game.

Spore was pants imo. It had potential but the flow of the game was completely wrong and fragmented that the fun was sucked away.

Releasing on consoles would be a mistake if you ask me. A majority of people who wanted to play it played the PC version. Many didn't like what they saw. What's the chances of them buying it?

Now, Sim 3. I'd like to see that on a console (or Fantasy World Dizzy for that matter but thats a different story).

no thanks dont want Bore *Eh hem* i mean spore on my ps3

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