Out of curiosity, would you buy a new computer just to play The Sims?

I have done twice. There's other games I play but with my pc The sims is the main one.

i bought my current "gaming" laptop just to play the sims, i'm a console pleb.
although, my old laptop was getting worn out anyway, but if not for the sims i would have gotten a much cheaper (and smaller..) one to replace it.

i recently bought a gaming laptop just to play the sims. And now I have 2 laptops

Yes, cause I did. Sims 4 wouldn’t run on my computer, so I bought a new one.

Have done so twice. Gaming laptop in 2009, and then more recently in 2016 a gaming desktop. :smiley:

I do play other games, but if I didn’t play The Sims I wouldn’t have bothered with buying a computer of my own and would have just used one of the others we have here.

I have to answer yes because I have done that a couple of times earlier. But it isn’t a complete “yes” because TS5 has to be surprisingly good for me to do it again. Otherwise I most likely won’t do it once more.

This is very interesting to see. The twitter poll is still running I believe, but if anyone is interested, I'll post the results here when it's finished.

I have five times now. Two times laptops, which I regret doing and three times desktops. I started off with a desktop with the Sims game, upgraded to a better computer, did so again with the Sims 2. Tried two laptops with the Sims 3, I wouldn't recommend it, and now on my first gaming desktop with the Sims 5. Thing is I didn't upgrade my computer just for the Sims, but it was actually Overwatch that had me upgraded. I used all my allowance money as a kid and would babysit to buy new computers and a few packs for the first two iterations. My brother ended up buying the DS versions of the Sims games but it got stolen at his high school. For college I bought new laptops using my loan and scholarship funds and games with babysitting and a few jobs I had during it. I remember I used to burn my tummy and one was starting to spark, so I had to get rid of that laptop because it had overheated so much it melted the cords and adaptors while playing the Sims 3. Now I'm graduated and have worked a bit, I'm able to buy myself more, so I have a nice gaming desktop that my brother helped me build, and for the first time able to buy myself the packs I had missed in the Sims 3, EPs at least, and get some Sims 4 packs. I can't play the Sims on the desktop due to OS reasons, but able to run the other three games on it. I did get a tip from a streamer how to run the first Sims on Windows 10 however.

November 2016 I bought a MacBook, I didn't buy it for The Sims, however that's not to say it wasn't a big factor in which laptop I was going to buy.

@aricarai Very curious what the Twitter results say, if it corresponds or not.