Developer Will Wright confirms that he is working on a Wii version of Spore and gives his opinions on the Wii...

In an interview with The Guardian, games designer Will Wright (creator of The Sims) has confirmed that he is working on a Wii version of his next big title: Spore.

Spore is a life simulator that lets you control the evolution of a species from a multicellular organism to creature, then onto a human-like race all the way to a futuristic civilisation. Spore will let you create your own creatures and environments/ecosystems. The aim of the game is simply to get your organism all the way to the space age.

Each "phase" has distinct gameplay differences. In the Cellular phase you'll need to consume (or avoid) other microbes to add cells to your organism. Once the Creature phase is reached, you'll have to fight against prey and predators, feed yourself and reproduce. Next is the Tribal phase. You can clothe your creatures and have battles against other tribes. Once you have 20 members you progress to the Civilization phase, which plays like a simplified SimCity. The final phase, the Space phase, you'll be able to visit other planets and be able to build a genesis device, which (as Star Trek fans know) converts an uninhabitable planet into a planet with lots of life.

Spore will also appear for Windows and on the DS. Will Wright also gave his thoughts on the Wii:

"Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii � the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement. But the Wii feels like a major jump � not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while.

We've got an Xbox 360 collecting dust in the background, a Wii hooked up that we use quite a bit. I don't have a PS3. I still, for the most part, prefer playing games on the computer � to me the mouse is the best input device ever."