Given how every other high-profile PC game is selling (mere 5 figures on opening month), I really don't see Spore selling 6 million copies. The PC gaming market just isn't there for anything beyond WoW and the Sims.
I would bet on it being a placeholder date put there by a retailer. Especially when the game is highly anticipated (and repeatedly delayed), retailer dates are usually suspect and exist so that they can get consumers to pre-order through them. I won't trust a date until EA or Wright himself says something.
IGN has an interview with the Spore guys....IGN will be playing a demo...SPORE will be seen at Leipzig instead of E3...DS version is coming shortly after PC release...no creature cross pollination with DS/PC.
Fiscal 09 means part way through 08? who the heck cares? Do you think someone wants to tie up their DKP for another year?
Personally i couldnt stand having my DKP tied up for year.
You can really tell that this stock is over-hyped because it is valued more now than it was before the negative rumors circulated. It is a backlash where people thought they could make some money because it was on the rise. Now those people will want to get out before it drops and will sell.
Reports that Electronic Arts’ highly anticipated Spore has been further delayed are “misinformation,” the publisher told Next-Gen today. ImageIt’s one of the most anticipated games of today, and any word of further delay for Will Wright’s Spore is sure to make headlines.
But reports making rounds today are basically old news being made into “new” news, EA said.
“There seems to be some misinformation flying around,” explained a rep in a phone interview. “Nothing’s changed since our call on May 8, where [CEO] John Riccitello specifically said that we were moving Spore from fiscal ’08 to early fiscal ’09."
EA's fiscal 2009 runs from April 2008 through March 2009.
During that May earnings call, Riccitello stated, "…Spore is a title we have enormous confidence in. I've had the chance to review the title three times in the my short return to EA and it looks fantastic. I will also tell you that it's 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."
There has yet to be a firm announced released date for Spore. An "early fiscal '09" release means that the game could theoretically launch in spring 2008.
The rep said that the rumor of the additional delay was exacerbated by a quote making the rounds in the games press lifted from the latest issue of Game Informer which says that the game is “delayed indefinitely.” Apparently, the information from the conference call was misconstrued, the rep determined.
“It’s the same information we said in May. Spore’s progressing and it looks great,” she added.
IGN has published a list of the software being covered at this year's Expo, widely publicized as being a complete reinvention of the E3 the gaming industry has come to know over the past decade. As the format of the show has long been expected to be quite different, it comes as no surprise that the software list is somewhat shorter than has been typical.
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