Spore Games For Wii and DS, PC Expansions Due In 2009 50
Supa writes "EA UK has confirmed new Spore games for the Wii, DS and PC, as well as four more Spore expansion packs. From the article: 'Spore fans are finally getting that Wii version of Spore in Spore: Hero. Another new game tie-in will be Spore: Hero Arena for DS, a standalone Spore: Creature Keeper (PC), and four more Spore expansion packs with the first of them titled Spore: Galactic Adventures.' All of them will be arriving in 2009."
Kotaku has a more in-depth look at the details of the first expansion, saying, "As with most of what comes from developer Maxis, there's a lot of stuff to soak up whenever they make something new. Adventures is way more than just slapped-on content or a single new feature; you really have to play it to even get a feel of just how much is going on."
Shovelware incoming (Score:2, Insightful)
Names... (Score:3, Insightful)
Is it just me or does it seem that whenever there's a lesser version of some game, it has a longer name.
First we started off with 'Spore' on the PC.
Then it's 'Spore:Hero' on the Wii.
Finally, it's 'Spore: Hero Arena' on the DS.
Can we expect a 'Spore: Hero Arena - Electric Boogaloo' for the Atari 2600?
Re:Why people would buy Wii with Low-Tech hardware (Score:3, Insightful)
Even if PS3 or Xbox360 added a Wii-type controller, it wouldn't help them because it wouldn't be the standard controller for that platform, and thus third-party developers wouldn't be able to count on the player having it. It would suffer the same fate as every other non-standard controller in history (light guns, mice, dance pads, etc.): only used by one or a few games. Nintendo's brilliance (or luck, if you're a Sony or MS fanboy) with the Wii was not that they made a new type of input device available, but that they forced developers to actually use it.