On the official EA website there is now a new unlisted page titled "The Sims Life"https://i.ibb.co/rGWkFpd/life.pnghttps://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/live-the-sims-lifeThe page url is listed as a game in the sims franchise, and is seemingly talking about 4 as it links to 4 at the bottom of the page. However, the weird thing is that they never call the game the Sims 4 once, it's only referred to as "The Sims Life". Through the whole page they only use the term the sims life, there's references to living the sims life throughout with the slogan "How will you live the sims life?". There's no mention of the sims 4 anywhere and it constantly references living the sims life as if that's the title of the game.Then with this page there is 4 unlisted commercials, presumably also for the Sims 4, however again there's no mention of the Sims 4. Usually with commercials for the game the title would be "The Sims 4: -insert text-", however for these commercials the title on all of them is "The Sims Life: -insert text-"https://i.ibb.co/qkJxqmx/life2.pngThere is absolutely no mention of 4 in any of these trailers, instead at the end of the trailers they call it the Sims life. Could The Sims 4 be rebranding? The first of these trailers also came out on the 26th of November. Just one day before these came out SimGuruGraham talked about the future of the game and the article calls it "Less The Sims 5, more The Sims 4.5 ", they also said in this article "there needs to be more life in the life sim"...

I think they're just trying to advertise all their Sims games (Sims 4, Sims Mobile, Freeplay ...) that they have listed at the top. These commercials are super random and don't specifically represent any of the games well so they can apply to all of them.

i never played The Sims Life Stories so idk but thats still all that pops into my head when u spell it like that o_owe also don't have spinoff for ts4 era yet unless we count mobile soooo....

under the "how would you like to play?" thing on its website says *Requires The Sims 4 (sold separately) and all game updates. For PC, see minimum system requirements for the pack. and when you click on the platform it still goes to sims 4, so it's either sims 4 rebranding or a sims 4 add on/spin off dw @Simmingal i'm kinda connecting the dots as well

Maybe this is their way of trying to sell the sims4 without revealing that it's a six year old game with over $600 in DLC...

Sims 4 being rebranded as "The Sims Life"?

CaptainMe120
5 years ago
They can also say Sims Life to attract ppl to stick with sims in the future as well. Eventually there will be no sims 4, and there will be a newer sims. For now they mean all sims game they have available.
GracieFace312
New Spectator
5 years ago
"WildIrishBanshee;c-17746668" wrote:
I'm interested in this waterworld concept though...

Me too! It's literally the only thing that made me think 'oohh! Yeah, I want that! The Sims needs more of that.'
yamsisims
5 years ago
"Onverser;c-17746685" wrote:
"haneul;c-17746541" wrote:
I think they're just trying to advertise all their Sims games (Sims 4, Sims Mobile, Freeplay ...) that they have listed at the top. These commercials are super random and don't specifically represent any of the games well so they can apply to all of them.

Possibly, but the only game that's linked to the videos and this article is Sims 4, on the "How would you like to play" at the bottom of the page it only gives the option of pc or console. Even more confusing is that it says it
Requires The Sims 4 (sold separately) and all game updates. For PC, see minimum system requirements for the pack
as if it's dlc.

The have to do that in the disclaimer to keep the legal departments happy. SimsVIP even has an article confirming it is just a marketing campaign for the franchise as a whole.
Bmm209
5 years ago
As long as its moving in a Sims 5 direction im good. But if theyre just rebranding sims 4 again i cri

If the base game was more solid i wouldnt mind if they kept adding dlc forever but its not like that for me.
fruitsbasket100
New Vanguard
5 years ago
@pepperjax1230 I wish. We can't even dive underwater like that in ts4.
Babykittyjade
Rising Observer
5 years ago
@fruitsbasket101 maybe we can one day ? I have a feeling they may give us underwater lots. Especially since they don't plan on ending this any time soon.

To answer the OP from my understanding I think it's a rebranding. They didn't call it the sims 4.5 for nothing. Sure they list all their games because they would be happy if someone brought something regardless of which part. But the sims 4.5 is the main attraction because it's still going. And they said there is much planned for it.
imahulazombie
5 years ago
@haneul so it's just ea being lazy and misleading? yeah nothing new then
Chicklet45368
Rising Traveler
5 years ago
When you click on "Learn More" it takes you to the TS4 webpage. So, I would say it's about TS4 and not the entire franchise.
Chicklet45368
Rising Traveler
5 years ago
The part of that website that irritates me the most is their statement:

Forget boundaries! In fact, forget walls!
You do you, wherever you want to!

That's false!

Definition of boundary

noun, plural bound·a·ries.
Something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.

TS4 has several boundries!

- Lot Limitations or Restrictions (Lots have to have certain items to function correctly)
- World Limitations or Restrictions (Can't edit our own worlds due to limitations and restrictions on the world)
GuillaumeSnow20
5 years ago
I always thought TS5 wouldn't be named The Sims 5, but something more along the lines of The Sims Life indeed, so i think it's a very plausible possibility, but i feel like it's unlikely since they just did a rebranding. If they do another one this soon, it will feel like they are trying to put lipstick on a pig.