Can infants be played as active sims?

I'll be happy if they are, even if you can just do some basic stuff with them, like slow-crawling (faster and faster as the crawling skill increases) to a location, and yes, seeing their needs would be priority number one.

Heck, I'd want the same things for a possible cats and dogs refresh, at least so I can direct my dog to *NOT* do his business just outside the front door. I'm my story's creator. Make it a turn on/turn off feature if you must, but give me control!

I think infants will be able to play, crawl and vocalise, but probably not much else.

If some form of "go here" is not possible I will feel deeply betrayed by the sunglasses-wearing scooting on knees at the end of the trailer.

"Simmingal;c-18227564" wrote:
I really hope so :sweat_smile:
it'd be real pain to take care of one if I can't even see their needs
and direct their actions to work around possible glitches and bugs
I already age the existing babes immediately because of that :lol:
can't with the guessing games

also dislike how game deletes the babies/toddlers/children being taken away for neglect
why can't they just become ghost like every other sim or at least be adoptable by another sim household
or make their own household instead of disappearing into nothingness dang it

too much responsibility
i'll just raise dragons

Yeah, I’d like to see an update where they could become adoptable too….

To all the people saying that infants (and cats and dogs) should not be controllable because they are not fully controllable in real life, let me just point out that in my experience, neither are children in real life... or for that matter, fully grown adults. :D

Trust me, if I could queue up a full menu of actions for my whole family in real life, there are times when I would, but that's why TS4 is a simulation, not the real thing!

I hadn't thought about it until now but I am hoping that they are not controllable because that lifestage IRL is pretty much uncontrollable. Infants learn from the direction given by the adult caring for them. Like @annalephant I had thought about how we could gain some control over them as they learn. If they are uncontrollable I am sure the wonderful modding community will soon develop a tool that will allow them to be controlled although that obviously isn't any help if you are unable to use mods due to playing on a console or just prefer not to. However they are given to us though I am just very excited that they are coming!!

I would be very surprised if you couldn't control them like the toddler stage upwards. I wouldn't mind too much if they were like Cats and Dogs, as it's still an improvement on the bassinet babies, but I would much prefer it if you could direct them.

I think their options will be rather limited, not rreally sure what an infant could do? "Watch tv channel ..."? Nope. "Turn on stereo"? No. "Make a mess"? Nope, not even that. They can probably "watch thing" to build some understanding of their surroundings. And maybe some toys can have multiple options, liuke "pull" or "drag" or "smash". I hope they can also initiate some interaction with household members incl. pets.
Most of all I hope an infant's actions, being iniitiated or directed, will have some affect on their future personality. A cared for infant MUST be different from an infant NEGLECTED, right?