In a recent interview with NowGamer, an EA Rep said the following.
The thing we can say about Glassbox is we built that as a foundation for future simulations for the studio and it’s highly scalable, it’s highly applicable to a wide variety of different platforms.
Some think this is referring to future games being released on Console, but it’s more likely mentioning how the different Maxis Studios could use the engines on other games. For instance, maybe The Sims 4 or a new franchise. What do you think?
Spore’s idea was great but not executed well enough. They need to remake that game using GlassBox.
After SimCity I hope they do a remake of SimCopter. It was fun back in the day but the graphics have aged terribly, I can’t stand playing it for more than a few minutes. It could have the ability to use SimCity maps just like the original. Plus maybe there will be less pressure this time to rush a new version of the game. From what I’ve heard the development cycle of SimCopter was extremely stressful and that’s what caused the controversial men kissing in speedos thing.