Sims 5 might be huge

"dearie_blossom;c-17666945" wrote:
Why do people think that TS5 might be built with Unreal or Unity? The Sims always has had its own, in-house engine. They‘re not suddenly going to stop.

EA spent millions developing a game engine for an online social RPG only to shoehorn a life sim on top. I’m sure the goal was to use this tech for many years, spanning multiple Sims base games, but it’s garbage. Doesn’t do what it’s expected, can’t do what people want; and this was supposedly the best engine *ever* if the devs are to be taken seriously anymore. They talked up how this engine was easy to work with, capable, and in the 6 years following that they’ve come out and said the complete opposite. EA is going to milk this game for all they can get, since the original plan was shattered years ago. You can’t put bicycle wheels on a car and expect it to work, and you can’t just redesign the finished car to fit the wheels.

Call me anything but I wish that TS5 will only be released on PC so the resources, focus and budget aren't scattered on multiple platform

"Simmerville;c-17669972" wrote:
Glad I'm not going anywhere near TS5. And that I still have years of content exploring TS4 :)

What content, sims 4 doesn't really have much

Polygon count has generally been rising in games over the years. However, with the advent of mesh shaders allowing developers to use very high-quality models with billions of polygons (as seen in the UE5 demo breakdown) and very high-resolution textures with little to no performance penalty, game install sizes may seriously start outpacing SSD price to capacity.

Current generation titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 (150GB) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare & Warzone (200GB) are already moving the needle. It will be very interesting to see what happens when developers start taking advantage of new engine capabilities.

I spotted a video testing mesh shaders (which could be levereaged to create an open world Sims). Data sizes were quite notable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bf_bnLlNT8

what's even "HUG-er" the over-hyped consumers that think Sims5 is going to be the bomb-diggety. EA loves U!

Modern game development is a synergy between technical feasibility and corporate objectives. Regarding Sims 5, we don’t know about latter, but there’s plenty of information on the former to create discussions.

My discussion around the forum centres around (publicly known) technologies coming out now and in the near future that’ll give Maxis an opportunity to make Sims 5 a landmark technological achievement (given it’s a game with a large architecture component), more so than Sims 4 could’ve been even if it didn’t have limitations at an engine level.

EA’s corporate objectives could well and truly prevent that from happening. But that’s currently an unknown. People have great passion for the franchise and hope it’ll do well. So, for now, a healthy dose of optimism goes a long way.

"crocobaura;c-17666900" wrote:

"Cavapoo_King;d-981655" wrote:
I was looking at ps5 and all the new games are going to be huge (between 50GB-100GB) and that probably means sims 5 will be too and yes I know this is console not pc but the games and updates are usually of similar size

That might be because of higher quality graphics, as everyone requests realistic characters, which means bigger files.

If the graphics were of higher quality what happens when your sim sets themselves on fire or perhaps killed by a swarm of flies

"ClarionOfJoy;c-17666910" wrote:
Good post!

Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I want a gaming laptop with lot of space in the SSD. My old computer from 2014 would have filled up so quickly, plus I don't think it would even meet minimum requirements of the TS5 base game, much less subsequent packs!

Glad that PS5 will be out this November. Now we just have to wait for The Sims 5. Hopefully they'll announce it after the next EP is released. I've speculated that it might be built with the Unreal Engine 4 but I'd like to know for sure soon so I can get ready to mod for it.

Could be unreal engine 5

"Cavapoo_King;d-981655" wrote:
I was looking at ps5 and all the new games are going to be huge (between 50GB-100GB) and that probably means sims 5 will be too and yes I know this is console not pc but the games and updates are usually of similar size

It depends. Games that came out after 2014 were also much much bigger than the Sims 4. The Sims 4 EPs are smaller than the Sims 3 ones sometimes, with some being just 1 or 1,5 GBs.
It really depends on the game they will make. If they make another one like the Sims 4 then the files will be small for sure.

Doesn’t this mean that the current new games coming up for PS5 will be 50-100 GB? As Sims 5 isn’t announced or even confirmed to be in development, we don’t know if it will be at least 50 GB?