New game (not sims 5)
Do you think they could be releasing a new game not the Sims 5 but like a spin-off Sims in space or somthing a bit like Sims Medeval but without the restrictions and set in a different time period the...
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"elelunicy;c-16463843" wrote:"@Erpe;c-16463797" wrote:"elelunicy;c-16463782" wrote:
Very unlikely. EA is increasingly risk-averse and they won’t greenlight those side projects. Same reason why TS4 console is simply a port of the PC version done by an external studio. They didn’t wanna spend a lot of money/resources to build a new game specifically for consoles like the previous console games were.
EA hasn’t reallly changed much about this. But I agree that EA probably won’t release a sidegame now when the Sims 4 era most likely is quite close to its end.
The reason why TS4 hasn’t got any sidegames to me seems to be quite different:
1. Sims 2 and Sims 3 got sidegames. But neither Sims 1 or Sims 2 sold well when their successor had been released.
2. EA seems to have planned to change this such that Sims 3 and its packs still could sell well after Sims 4 had been released. Therefore Sims 4 was made as it is and so different from Sims 3 as possible and the plan seems to have success. So EA still sells Sims 3 and its packs for their full prices and likely just want people to buy those packs instead of any sidegames to Sims 4.
So no. I don't believe that Sims 4 will get any sidegames at all.
EA changed a lot. Do some research of how many games EA used to release per year 10 years ago vs. how many games they release per year now (I’m talking about HD titles made by EA themselves; mobile games and EA Originals games don’t count). They’re far more selective about what games they make now than they were a decade ago.
Time has changed. But you can’t just ignore that EA now use a lot of developers to make mobile games too because they can’t make PC games at the same time.
Anyway I don’t think that EA has changed more than other game companies. The market has changed and most games are now multi-platform games while they earlier were just PC games. This and the fact that most games now are online games mean that the games now require much more maintenance and a lot of updates too.
TS4 is about that last traditional offline PC-only big game. But even so it became multi-platform when it suddenly also was released for Xbox and PlayStation. When TS5 likely will be released next year the time for one-platform offline PC games will almost certainly be over for good also for the big Sims games.
