EA: Spore May See Delays

The Associated Press is reporting today that EA has issued a warning that their widely anticipated evolution game, Spore, may not be ready for release this year. In fact, they’re saying it may not be ready until the second quarter of 2008.

Spore is a positively massive project that is nothing less than one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. For this reason most people are going to be understanding of delays. After all, delays are only annoying when the game nears release. When the delay comes long before gamers get excited it’s not so bad. At least now we’ll know the delays are coming instead of being tricked into driving to Gamestop four different times (re: Dead or Alive 4).

The AP report was also rife with stock market jargon. The gist of it is that when news of Spore’s suspected delays came out, quite a few holders ditched their stocks. It also says that EA’s numbers have been taking a bit of a hit this year as compared to last year. Even though last year they took a big hit in comparison to the year before that.

I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m no stock market guru, but the way I understood it, 2006 was supposed to be the weak year for publishers as the market gravitated towards the new technology and installed bases were at a minimum. Still, I wouldn’t worry too much about poor little EA. They’re the biggest publisher in the world for good reason. They’ve got Command and Conquer 3: The Tiberium Wars, a Harry Potter game, and Medal of Honor: Airborne all slated for Q2 of this year, so you can expect them to make a killing in round two. Not to mention Boogie and Rock Band are going to sell millions.

We’ll keep an eye on EA in the future to see if maybe, just maybe, the giant is falling.

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