EA is positioning Spore to be a big-seller this year, but just how successful will the game be? Colin Sebastian, analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, is the first to try to give it a number: 2 million.

Sebastian’s guess is in tune with EA’s own expectations that the game will be a blockbuster. However, EA is more concerned with making Spore stand as a platform that can be monetized even further, ala The Sims.

Spore will ship September 7 on PC and Mac, alongside a stripped-down version on the DS.

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