After just two weeks and change on the market, EA and Maxis' Spore has sold through over a million copies. The company announced today that Will Wright and team's sim-everything game is, officially, "a hit." That million-plus figure counts sales of the Windows, Mac and Nintendo DS versions of Spore, but not the mobile and iPhone versions.

While EA was trotting out numbers, it wanted to mention that some 25 million things have been uploaded to the Sporepedia, a figure we'll presume includes all the goodies uploaded via the Spore Creature Creator. So, now you know!

http://kotaku.com/5054452/spore-spawns-a-million-sales-25-million-creations

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****note:  No link was attached to the story to validate the claims.

In pC and MAc they only got half a million activations, they said themselves, but íf I´m not mistaken, it was supose to hit two mln in one month. In the pc only... DRM did the opposite it was supose to do. Plus, the dumb down gameplay may have influenced too, since people are talking about this in the official and extra official foruns and probably with their friends and fammily too. And I wanted this game so bad, such disapointment...

The "half-million" activations were from like almost 2 weeks ago. Yes, they did say something about 2 millions in september (which can still happen imo), but their original projection was between 3 to 5 millions until the end of the year, and Spore will definitely reach that.

Plus, the gameplay is suitable for Spore and for what it was intended. Anyone saying Spore has a dumbed-down gameplay definitely hasn't played the space stage extensively.

Considering the nature of PC pirating, that must mean 5.231 Billion people are currently playing Spore.

Colour me impressed.

The guesstimates about pirating in this games are above 500 k.
@ shio I´m just repeating what I´ve read in spore foruns. I haven´t played it yet. After reading all that threads I´m refering, I´ll have to play in someones house before getting it, if they drop the DRM, eventually...
But the idea i´ve got in 2005 was different from what I saw in the late demos, adn I´m suspicious. I like games like civ and Europa Universalis, the way it is today doesn´t looks and sounds appealing.
Like I said, still have to try...

Thats... thats pathetic. Common, Spore should have been on eof the game that assures developers that PC gaming is not dead... lol those sales are absolutly minimal IMO to what they where expecting... to bad, to bad....

pc gamming is alive. Is the good games that fail to reach it...
But Empire TW is comming, high hopes on this one.