New game (not sims 5)

"LeGardePourpre;c-16463826" wrote:
A spin-off is possible only if Maxis can't add the gameplay to the main game, like The Urbz, Castaway Stories and Medieval.

Life Stories and Pet Stories could have been added to Sims 2. But they were instead spin-offs because EA wanted to see if they sold better that way.

Medieval could have been replaced by something else or made a little differently if EA had wanted an EP instead of a spin-off. So EA likely just wanted once more to see if a spin-off would be able to attract some new customers.

So I still believe that the main reason that EA hasn’t released any spin-offs for TS4 is that EA already has TS3 for new customers who want to try a Sims game that is different from TS4. A spin-off now would likely just steal some of those customers such that they would buy it instead of TS3 - and EA sure doesn’t want that!

"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.

Not likely, at this point if they make a side game and don’t add the content to sims 4 people would be mad. Aside from that the side games from sims 3 were mostly made for people with low end laptops ( at least that’s how it was marketed)

"Cheekybits;c-16463905" wrote:
Not likely, at this point if they make a side game and don’t add the content to sims 4 people would be mad. Aside from that the side games from sims 3 were mostly made for people with low end laptops ( at least that’s how it was marketed)

Correct. And it was the same with the 3 Sims Stories games that were marketed as much more laptop friendly than the Sims 2 was.

But the real explanation is instead IMO that the much smaller sidegames are meant to attract new very young simmers to the Sims games. Those young maybe soon-to-be simmers aren’t expected to have expensive stationary gaming computers but likely only cheap laptops for their schoolwork. So EA wants to offer them smaller Sims games which don’t need a strong computer.

But exactly therefore I think that EA now instead just want to offer them mobile Sims games for their phones and the Sims 3 (which is quite old now) as their starting Sims games until they are ready for the Sims 4.

"doogerie;d-939432" wrote:
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 devs have been quite lately so they must be working on somthing big. It feels to me like it could be a new game?

I doubt it but anything is possible. It could also be a Sims 4 Store.

I think there's still a lot missing from The Sims 4 for the team to consider any sort of spinoff or side game, especially with the recent reshuffling. If we do get anything like that it would probably be something done as they wind down Sims 4 to gear up for the next iteration of the game.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16464654" wrote:

"@Erpe;c-16463845" wrote:

"LeGardePourpre;c-16463826" wrote:
A spin-off is possible only if Maxis can't add the gameplay to the main game, like The Urbz, Castaway Stories and Medieval.

Life Stories and Pet Stories could have been added to Sims 2. But they were instead spin-offs because EA wanted to see if they sold better that way.

Scripted Story RPG mode as The Sims 2 feature ? I doubt Maxis would do it.

The Sims Stories was developed by Aspyr, it's maybe the other reason there is this spin-off.

Aspyr only ported both the Sims 2 and the Sims Stories from Windows to Mac like Aspyr has done with so many other games. But all the games were originally developed by EA’s Sims Division. The only difference between TS2 and the 3 Sims Stories games therefore was that the Sims Stories games were aimed at laptops (and low-end stationary computers). The sidegames were therefore just EA’s attempt to reach younger simmers who weren’t ready for a bigger Sims game yet.

In the Sims 2 days EA only made the games available for Windows computers. But Aspyr wanted to make both the Sims games and a lot of other games available for Mac too. In 2003 Aspyr owned 60% of the entertainment market for Mac. Aspyr also has ported many games to Linux and since then Aspyr also has ported many games to different consoles and mobile devices.

"Erpe;c-16464921" wrote:

"LeGardePourpre;c-16464654" wrote:

"@Erpe;c-16463845" wrote:

"LeGardePourpre;c-16463826" wrote:
A spin-off is possible only if Maxis can't add the gameplay to the main game, like The Urbz, Castaway Stories and Medieval.

Life Stories and Pet Stories could have been added to Sims 2. But they were instead spin-offs because EA wanted to see if they sold better that way.

Scripted Story RPG mode as The Sims 2 feature ? I doubt Maxis would do it.

The Sims Stories was developed by Aspyr, it's maybe the other reason there is this spin-off.

Aspyr only ported both the Sims 2 and the Sims Stories from Windows to Mac like Aspyr has done with so many other games. But all the games were originally developed by EA’s Sims Division. The only difference between TS2 and the 3 Sims Stories games therefore was that the Sims Stories games were aimed at laptops (and low-end stationary computers). The sidegames were therefore just EA’s attempt to reach younger simmers who weren’t ready for a bigger Sims game yet.

In the Sims 2 days EA only made the games available for Windows computers. But Aspyr wanted to make both the Sims games and a lot of other games available for Mac too. In 2003 Aspyr owned 60% of the entertainment market for Mac. Aspyr also has ported many games to Linux and since then Aspyr also has ported many games to different consoles and mobile devices.

Not really - they were called Dorm games so college age and under is what they designed them for (there was even ads on tv for them back then- I recall the Castaways ad) as many college pcs were not really made for gaming. I never bothered with them as they were too much like quest games and I had my fill of those kind of games. I stuck to just the regular Sims series games.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16466503" wrote:
I would like The Sims Ancient Time, a life simulation of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt with the mythology gods and half-gods.

Maybe this theme is not enough popular compared to Medieval.

I love this idea.

So do I