sims 3 or sims 4

The point is that the major differences between the two games for many, perhaps not for everyone, are not the feature sets and content. Not everyone feels this way, but many of us who much prefer one game over the other, going in either direction here, do not care which one has basketballs, cars, tombs, dolphins, universities, werewolves, push and pull CAS elements, or any particular sets of content and design tools. The two games do not play the same way as each other, the challenges the players take on as they progress their active households and (if so inclined) entire worlds as they play are very different and do not always have the same appeal. It's not that one has loading screens while the other has a long single initial load time that is a major difference to many of us, it's that in one we can observe, interact, and influence an entire world's evolution and progression all at once if we choose to play that way, whereas in the other this choice is not possible and we are to concentrate only on one actively being played household at a time with or without rotational play.

I have zero interest in playing TS4 and it's not because I don't want to purchase EPs for features that I already have in TS3. I wouldn't want to play TS4 even if the packs were all available to me and all of the content matched up because the game does not live up to what I want (and already have) as a life simulator where the entire world progresses at once. There are others who feel the same way in reverse, and there are those who are able to appreciate and enjoy both games for what they are, quirks and all, while still recognizing that they provide very different long- and short-term play experiences from each other.