No more Spore in '07

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted May 8, 2007 5:44 pm PT

Will Wright's ambitious evolution/civilization/creature creation title is now being targeted for spring 2008.

Though console owners will have a cornucopia of titles to choose from this fall, PC gamers were looking forward to one in particular. Spore, the hugely ambitious new project from Sims creator Will Wright, was slated to be out later this year and was presumed by many to be one of Electronic Arts' tentpole holiday releases.

Well, presume no longer. Today during a post-earnings report conference call with analysts, newly reinstalled EA CEO John Riccitiello shattered many gamers' dreams by announcing that Spore is no longer on the publisher's 2008 fiscal year calendar, which ends on March 31, 2008.

"Spore is a title we have enormous confidence in," Riccitiello told analysts. "I've had the chance to review the title three times in my short return to the EA, and it looks fantastic. I will also tell you that its release will be right up [to] the bubble in Q4 [of fiscal '08], if not sometime in early fiscal '09, so we don't feel comfortable in forecasting it." No specific mention was made of the DS version of the game.

As is often the case with high-profile titles, quality control concerns were behind the delay. "We're focusing on quality to make sure we build a franchise that feels more like The Sims, a franchise that we hope...to see around for some time in the future." Riccitiello promised, hinting the publisher has big plans for the property.

576 Comments

  • kingcole225

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 2:59 pm PT

    is there gunna be underwater creatures that u can be and make and underwater civilization cuz that wood be too cool

  • sanjeev3

    Posted Oct 10, 2007 11:30 pm PT

    I know that after the creature phase it becomes a sim one, but I don't want this like "The Sims" at all. Just like a sim game like "Pharaoh" or "Caesar IV" you know, those games that are sims but awesome at the same time.

  • hardprovidence

    Posted Oct 2, 2007 10:10 am PT

    Screw you John Riccitiello!

  • Psycho8x8

    Posted Aug 7, 2007 4:04 pm PT

    well i figure waiting for spore will just make it (feel like it will) take longer so i have given up all hope of spore and when it finally comes out ill go like, hmm? spore? oh righ that game! well time to start playing it! (or something like that lol)

  • Limes20

    Posted Aug 1, 2007 8:20 am PT

    so its all money n zero consumer's wishes? sheesh wat a cruel world...

  • pain2worship

    Posted Jul 26, 2007 8:47 am PT

    ryudo is right PEOPLE ARE SOOOO STUPID ! ! !

  • xboxobie

    Posted Jul 15, 2007 3:00 pm PT

    Sadly people seem to overlook the fact that games are simply a buisiness to these guys.

    If the game is released this financial year then EA are gonna simply pass targets theyre possibly already near.
    However release in April/May 08 (early next financial year) will mean EA will have a Major boost to next years Financial targets.

    Hitting targets each year is what makes these companies bigger, And sadly, Like Ubi-soft and many other maor publishers, Electronic Arts are much more interested in Money & hitting targets, than they will ever be on us getting games in time.

  • Limes20

    Posted Jul 12, 2007 5:57 am PT

    ummm... someones gotta tell wil that not everyone has computers like his mine's a home computer for chris's sake!!!! the current visuals would be enuff!!!! anymore, everyone's computer's will blow up. so is this this a plot by EA n a computer company to sell us ridiculously priced coms that can play spore?

  • Sleck64

    Posted Jul 6, 2007 8:52 pm PT

    Yeah! they're going to keep pushing it back till it's super awsome like Team Fortress 2. I can't wait till 2010 when we get to see the new engine they'll be using. EA games sure is developing a great reputation in the gaming community. Bethesda would have done something stupid like released a crazy good game and started working on a different title.

  • Jordite

    Posted Jul 6, 2007 11:43 am PT

    Does no one think that they're delaying the release because they want to make it good, and not rush the release of an unfinished and/or buggy game? This entire concept is absolutely freaking huge, so hopefully we can comprehend a few months of delay so that it works correctly. Since '05, there have been a multitude of new innovations in computer technologies (count Vista, Dual Core processing, 64-bit technology, etc) so the game needs to work correctly with those.

  • crowdevil

    Posted Jul 5, 2007 11:01 pm PT

    Well, presume no longer. Today during a post-earnings report conference call with analysts, newly reinstalled EA CEO John Riccitiello shattered many gamers' dreams by announcing that Spore is no longer on the publisher's 2008 fiscal year calendar, which ends on March 31, 2008.

    Did you not mean "is no longer on the publisher's 2007 fiscal year calendar"

  • sando123

    Posted Jul 1, 2007 9:04 am PT

    If they do that, I'll go to them and destroy all the crappy game's progres ^^, But the solution of getting more money from a good game, Make a better game ^^

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