Do you think we will get another expansion this year?

"Erpe;c-16529322" wrote:

"Armilus616;c-16529281" wrote:
For the maybe millionth time.
I *never* said PC gaming was dieing.
I said *EA believes* PC gaming is dieing.

The research you were discribeing is if PC gaming was dieing, and found it not to be true, which is my impression too.
The people of EA's top management disagree on that for whatever reason. I honestly don't know why. For the exact reason you pointed out, the leaders of EA seem to be wrong about that. But strangely, they seem to be so sure, they are willing to gamble with the future of their company.
Either they are wrong, or we are missing something important.
I told you to google something like "EA about the future of gameing", not "the future of gameing".

You miss my point which is that EA’s top actually follow the development for all kinds of gaming much more close than we do and they also have access to much more statistics about it than we do. It is their job to evaluate such things all the time and to adjust EA’s plans when things changes!

So no. There is no chance that EA knows less about it than we do and all statistics shows that the market for PC games isn’t decreasing at all! The PC market (and the market for console games too) has just grown slower than the market for mobile games which therefore now has become bigger than the markets for PC games and the market for console games.

So yes EA makes more mobile games now. But EA has no plans to stop making PC games and console games too. The Sims games are among the most profitable games for EA and especially in the PC version. So there is no chance at all that TS4 will become the last big Sims game for PCs! :)

Eiher our common opinion of PC gaming still having a big Future is wrong, or EA is wrong about it's statement that Mobile Games are the Future of the Industry and that they have to adapt to that, gradually leaving the sinking ship as a long term goal.

I have watched several You Tube videos on the topic of gaming, where that Statement was repeated as a side note or an explenation for behaviour the Developers or Fans did not endorse.
In many of those You Tube Videos, Gamedevs talk about Games they were working on being canceled or were to be redesigned as mobile games instead of PC, for that Reason.
It apears to be a long term plan. Something they gradually do over the course of years. Maybe one or two decades.
I can't see them throwing millions of dollars into a Sims 5 and its future Packs with plans like this.