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"Cinebar;c-17070646" wrote:
The link didn't work for me. But it looks like just about every game changer over on Youtube are now talking about TS5. They are all speculating of when it will be released. Do they know anymore than we do? Probably not. I think they all are a little late to the party because this forum has been speculating about TS5 for a few years now and they are just now gearing up and putting out videos to talk about TS5. It has a lot to do with SimGuruGrant no longer being senior producer of TS4. (All their speculation). But when do we usually see developers and other team members move off a current game to go work on a new game? About a year before it's released. So, yeah, the truth is out there and only about a year away in my opinion. :D :wink:
Well Will Wright stated they had started work on Sims 2 Sims Stages even before he launched House Party for Sims 1.
And I know for a fact they moved half the team during Sims 2 to work on Sims 3 when they were showing the Trailer for Open For Business as they (Well Tim Letourneau) accidentally announced it at Gamescom during an interview no less, when the reporter asked him what he'd be working on after Open for Business for Sims 2. He said then he would be moving from Sims 2 to oversee 2 projects - we later found out was a new Sim series and My Sims. Of course back in those days EA was not a public company and things like that often slipped out. Of course things started changing in mid Sims 2 by the time Bon Voyage was being made and the newest CEO - Jr took the helm of EA. He basically plugged info leaks after that.
By the time Sims 3 came out even accidentally saying something could cost a Team Member their job - so there was little slip up with info on exactly when Sims 4 was started but by watching things like job call outs and such for Maxis you could see by the offered jobs when a new engine was being built and later when the base game was being worked on. There was a call out as early as 2008/2009 for a new engine and there was info on the Olympus Project leaking 2009-2010 - but nothing cement enough to fully believe that was Sims 4 or some mobile game or something else Maxis was working on. Under CEO JR nothing concrete slipped.
I do know Will Wright used to say to make a good base game - 4-5 years was not a long time to spend making it right.
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