SimGuruGrant confirms The Sims 4's future; "We're not going Anywhere"

then you probably have to lock yourself in your room and never come out again.
i once saw some statistic on sims death reasons and not many did die of old age...

also there are games like gta 5 where you basically are killing people all the time and they are super successful and even more successful when they get better graphics. i guess there no way back to gameboy age.