I've been playing the Sims for many years. My first sims game was Bustin' Out on the PS2. I remember this game fondly and enjoyed it at the time, but much like many childhood games, revisiting it now wasn't as fun as I remembered it to be. Replaying the Sims 2 Pets on PS2 was even less enjoyable. Nowadays, I solely play Sims 2, Sims 3 and Sims 4 on PC.
But I understand why. The Sims is a complex game in terms of mechanisms, and carrying this over to console would be difficult. Yet, I somewhat have hope for this instalment of Sims on console. In the past, in terms of memory the PS3 and Xbox 360 were much less capable. The 360 came in 4GB, 12GB, 20GB, 60GB, 250GB and 320GB. If the average person had, say 60GB, the Sims 4 would have been a no-go on a console like this. Although the base game itself wouldn't take up a huge amount of memory, if we would like to hope there will someday be expansion packs on console (rather than a repeat of the Sims 2 Pets), then we would start to see the memory filling up very quickly.
Saying this, the recent Xbox One comes in sizes up to 1TB, which is plenty of space by anybody's standards.
Forgetting expansion packs, as long as the base game itself becomes a port of a good standard, I'm not fussed. But it would be great to see expansion packs become a thing on console as DLC.
