"DcD2510;c-16349004" wrote:
Keep in mind, they could release the sims 5 in late 2020 or even sometime in 2021, this gives them time to "finish" TS4 and then they can releas TS5, this also lets them take their time.
The problem with this is that it isn’t the way that EA usually thinks. For EA everything is about sales numbers and EA doesn’t care about ideas about “finishing” TS4 at all. Also EA could easily have released popular EPs like Seasons and University a long time ago. So why has EA instead done so much to avoid releasing them?
For me to see it is instead about avoiding that reviewers just describe each new Sims game as
”Now EA is again releasing just a new version of the Sims where they first release a simplified basegame whereafter simmers again will have to wait for years before the popular and important EPs like University and Seasons are released in yet new versions too! We will advise new simmers to instead buy one of the previous discounted versions of the game where everything already is released and wait for a few years before considering to buy the new game too!”So how should EA avoid this? IMO just by doing what they have done with TS4: avoid releasing too traditional EPs like University and Seasons for a long time. But shouldn’t EA release them now anyway just because they would likely sell quite well? IMO again no because this would hurt the sales numbers for TS5 way too much and for the reasons that I just described above. What I instead would do if I was a decision maker in EA would be to announce TS5 soon and then include the weather as one of the new things in the basegame because then I would be sure that the Sims 5 basegame would sell very well already from the beginning! ;)
