Will Wright, who left developer Maxis earlier this month, has said that he will regularly be involved with the ongoing development of the Spore franchise which he birthed.

Wright left Maxis to run his latest venture Stupid Fun Club, an “entertainment think tank developing new intellectual properties" which he co-owns with former employer Electronic Arts.

"I don't think it was widely reported, but alongside this whole [Stupid Fun Club] thing, I also entered into a consulting agreement with EA. I'm spending a certain amount of time every month actually working with the Spore team on future versions of Spore and expansions. So I will [still] be involved with EA on developing the Spore franchise as well," Wright told GameDaily.

The man behind SimCity and The Sims also spoke about the possibility of Spore seeing a release on Xbox 360 and PS3.

"I know there's been a lot of talk about it internally, but for us it's really an opportunity/cost issue. You know, we either do that or we continue creating new applications on the PC or we kind of go into the handheld arena.

“I can't specifically say what the plans are right now, but really all these things are measured against each other. We can't do everything at once, so we have to say, 'What platforms would it kind of evolve the fastest on?' So you can sort of look at a straight port to the PS3 and Xbox 360 and basically have the same game we have on the PC... or we could say, 'What can we do on this platform that will help us explore different parts of the design?' I think the Wii is really unique in that sense, with the things you can do on Wii that you can't do on other platforms right now.”