Spore Sales Prediction

[Sep 03, 2008, 08:43 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Spore expected to sell 2 million in US in September quotes sales projections by Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets. Among the specific things he's seen in his crystal ball are US sales of 2 million copies of Spore in September and around 650K sign-ups this month for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

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Sep 3, 2008, 16:48

dryden555

To my surprise too, it is indeed like an MMO in both 1. interface (once you get out of the water and onto land) and 2. in the way quests are given. The UI is a bunch of buttons with count-down timers (just like combat in WOW and Guild Wars etc) and you are hitting on these buttons to either attack or gain friends. For quests, you are traveling around a 3D landscape looking for "3 of this" or "do X activity to 5 of Y-type organisms." The landscapes are randomly generated and they look a bit generic which is unfortunate. You can tell the game was made for console graphics cards -- the landscape bitmaps and polygons are bland even on the highest settings. The creatures look great though. "fancy" graphical effects are surprisingly few, for example there don't appear to be any HDR or bloom effects at all. This comment was edited on Sep 3, 17:11.

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Sep 3, 09:47	Predication?	InBlack
	2.	Sep 3, 10:13	Re: Predication?	Nefilim
	3.	Sep 3, 10:17	Re: Predication?	InBlack
	4.	Sep 3, 10:21	Re: Predication?	Kajetan
	5.	Sep 3, 10:54	Re: Predication?	Blue
	6.	Sep 3, 11:01	Re: Predication?	PHJF
	7.	Sep 3, 11:35	Re: Predication?	Fang
	8.	Sep 3, 11:42	Re: Predication?	NKD
	9.	Sep 3, 11:51	Re: Predication?	NKD
	10.	Sep 3, 11:55	Re: Predication?	Jerykk
	11.	Sep 3, 12:07	Re: Predication?	Cutter
	14.	Sep 3, 12:33	Re: Predication?	The Half Elf
	15.	Sep 3, 12:41	No subject	Prez
	30.	Sep 3, 23:39	Re: Predication?	Cutter
	31.	Sep 4, 02:54	Re: Predication?	The Half Elf
	13.	Sep 3, 12:31	Re: Predication?	NKD
	22.	Sep 3, 15:48	Re: Predication?	Kxmode
	29.	Sep 3, 23:00	Re: Predication?	Jerykk
	12.	Sep 3, 12:22	liars....	Dreagon
	16.	Sep 3, 13:09	2 million...	Tumbler
	17.	Sep 3, 13:25	Re: 2 million...	Overon
	20.	Sep 3, 14:56	Re: 2 million...	sponge
	27.	Sep 3, 20:50	Re: 2 million...	Creston
	18.	Sep 3, 14:06	No subject	dryden555
	19.	Sep 3, 14:54	Re: No subject	Darks
	21.	Sep 3, 15:05	Re: No subject	The Half Elf
	23.	Sep 3, 16:21	No subject	Ozmodan
	24.	Sep 3, 16:40	Re: No subject	PHJF
>>	25.	Sep 3, 16:48	No subject	dryden555
	26.	Sep 3, 20:48	So when it doesn't reach 2 million	Creston
	28.	Sep 3, 21:15	the truth	Tumbler