EA announced today that Will Wright’s Spore has sold one million copies worldwide, across PC and Nintendo DS, since its September 7th release. According to NPD data posted at GamesIndustry.biz, the PC version of has also been crowned king of the hill in US software sales, sitting atop a stack of other EA titles and a few games whose names include the word “Warcraft.”
Likely noting how they had to include the DS version to arrive at a figure of one million, and how the span of 17 days since release isn’t a particularly significant number, EA is now positing Spore as a game likely to achieve evergreen sales. This line from Frank Gibeau, president of the EA Games label, was included in the press release:
We’re off to a great start moving into the holiday season and believe Spore will deliver a platform of creativity for gamers of all stripes for years to come.
It’s not a far-fetched idea — on that same NPD chart, The Sims 2 Double Deluxe sits at #6:
- 1. Spore
- 2. Spore Galactic Edition
- 3. The Sims 2 Apartment Life
- 4. Spore Creature Creator
- 5. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
- 6. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
- 7. World Of Warcraft
- 8. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
- 9. Warcraft III Battle Chest
- 10. Crysis
Press release:
EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that Spore™ has sold through more than one million copies at retail worldwide on the PC, Mac® and Nintendo DS™, since shipping worldwide on September 7th. Spore, developed by EA’s Maxis™™. To date, gamers have used the creativity tools in Spore to populate the universe with more than 25 million creatures, vehicles and buildings available to view in the Sporepedia™ at www.spore.com/sporepedia. Studio, is also available on mobile phones including the iPhone
Spore has been well received by game critics – with a Metacritic index of: 85.
“Spore is a hit,” said Frank Gibeau, president of the EA Games Label. “Will Wright’s latest delivers an incredibly diverse game that appeals to casual gamers and the core alike. We’re off to a great start moving into the holiday season and believe Spore will deliver a platform of creativity for gamers of all stripes for years to come.”
“We’re humbled by how quickly the community has taken to the creativity tools in Spore,” said Lucy Bradshaw, vice president of Maxis and Spore’s executive producer. “It’s amazing to see the sheer imagination represented in the hundreds of thousands of creatures, vehicles and buildings that have been uploaded around the clock since launch.”
Spore – rated E10+ — gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe filled with creations made by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships.
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