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batman8249's avatar
4 years ago

Will the sims 4 game ever come for iphone 13 pro

Will the sims 4 game ever come for iphone 13 pro

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  • @batman8249  It's very unlikely.  Aside from hardware limitations, iPhones run a different operating system, iOS, that's different enough from macOS (and Windows) that Sims 4 would need to be rewritten to make it work.  I doubt EA would spend the resources to do this, especially when people with iPhones can play Sims Mobile instead.

  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    I've heard (here, I think) of people using cloud services to stream the console version to their device, but i haven't tried it myself.  You'd have to google for more information.

    I suspect the issue is partly that yes, they already have a product for iPhone (Sims Mobile) and also just the game architecture, which calls out to other programs and devices in a way that iOS might not support.  Like, it calls Origin to make sure the game is licensed, and I think that iOS forbids programs from speaking to each other in that way... also I don't know about the video support on iOS... 

    So it's not just a matter of grabbing the code base and compiling it on iOS. Things work very differently in iOS than they do on the currently supported operating systems.