Is TS5 being announced soon?

"elelunicy;c-17566323" wrote:

"@ClarionOfJoy;c-17566075" wrote:
TS3 sells a lot better than TS4 in general. That's why it's still full price because there is still a good level of demand for it such that the market can bear the product at full price.

LOL. TS3 doesn't go on sale anymore because almost nobody is buying it anymore. EA can make more money by charging the few people who are still buying it a higher price. It's the same reason why TS4 stuff packs rarely go on sale. Hint: it's not because SPs sell better than EPs.

TS4 is the best selling game of the franchise, having made close to $1.5 billion in revenue by now, easily the most money a Sims game has made. Quite embarrassing for TS3 considering that game had thousands of dollars' worth of store content, and yet it got outsold by TS4 easily.

@elelunicy Okay now let's just take it down a notch and kinda take a look at how The Sims 4 works, if I am not mistaken the lifetime revenue includes the DLC as well:

-Recently it was reported that The Sims 4 had reached 20 million players. That doesn't however equal copies sold. Especially with The Sims 4 being given out for free for players on previous occasions there is major influence in the number of registered players from that.

-Another factor of The Sims 4 selling better than previous games is the marketing model they are using for it. Like I said the game could be found for free or for as little as 4,99 on previous occasions. This leads to people who wouldn't have normally bought the game to try it out. Generating more sales where there would have been none. Don't forget companies wouldn't put their games on crazy sales like that if they didn't pay off, sales might look customer-friendly but they are actually very revenue friendly as well, especially in Sims 4's case. Why that is? Because once you enter the game you are greeted by a ridiculous amount of offers for DLC, that is also on sale most of the time.

That results to more base game and additional DLC copies sold to people who would have normally not spend a penny on the game to spend a moderate amount of money because every single thing is on sale!

-The Sims 4 is marketed as a more casual game/low spec game and that attracts a lot of people who have 10 year old PCs and play Bejeweled to pass the time to actually get the game even though they don't consider themselves "gamers"

-Also the Stuff Packs in the Sims 4 are almost the same as Sims 3 Store Content. EA just noticed that their store content didn't sell because of the Points system so they turned it into Stuff packs and dropped the price so more people buy it. Leading to a lot more DLC than previous titles and as you might have guessed a lot more revenue

- A generational shift towards a more digitalized world and the gaming industry in general making more and more money every year could also be a factor. Especially when you consider it has been over a decade since The Sims 3 came out. Times change

-Finally watch out when you can The Sims 3 "embarrasing" because The Sims 4 outsold it yet EA is just making profit and they are not investing in making the game better. If the Sims 4 is making so much money why are the devs constantly complaining about budget and time limitations? Now that's what I call embarrasing...