What do you think the big news is?

"catloverplayer;c-16436749" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16436736" wrote:

"peach1red;c-16436726" wrote:

"Erpe;c-16436604" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16436367" wrote:
Maybe that Sims Mobile is taking over and that Sims 4 is done for? It seems everyone wants to get in on the mobile gaming bandwagon for some reason.

The market for mobile games have been growing in recent years and is now bigger than tha markets for PC games and console games put together. See http://nordic.businessinsider.com/mobile-games-more-money-than-console-pc-chart-2017-6?r=US&IR=T

The reason is the huge growth in the number of smartphones and the market for such games is especially huge in the very populous countries in Asia. So the game companies just has to make more of such games.

The markets for PC games and console games haven’t become smaller though. So even though the game companies have to make more mobile games they also have to make just as many games for PCs and consoles as they did earlier. They just have to expand because the total market for games has been growing a lot too.

So don’t fear the mobile market. It won’t be that market that finally will kill the big Sims games for the PCs! :)

That's the most comforting news I've heard far too long..

Even EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated that in an interview I just saw yesterday - that he sees a Billion people around the world being connected to EAs games on all devices they own from pc, to mobile, to console, to VR as that is where they are heading and aiming. He want people to be able to play ALL their favorite games on any and all devices, any time and any place in the world.

VR hmm? That could be interesting but I wonder if we could switch between sims that way that are in the same household.

Still the PC needs to get the most attention.

Oh I won't be doing VR - I tested a couple of VR sets and both made me very ill with in minutes. One of my sons who is a programmer and avid hardcore gamer experienced the same motion issue just not as quickly as I do - but we were told if you suffer any kind of vertigo, serious headaches or motion sickness in any form - you will most likely not be able to tolerate VR - and boy were they right. For me it was almost instantly in both sets I tried. My son lasted about 15-20 minutes. So nope - not going for VR. I stayed ill rest of the after noon after trying them.

To be fair I do have vertigo in some games(first person type games) and in real cars, and get Migraines with aura - so I probably should have never volunteered to try it. LOL. But I couldn't resist - lol.

I have no idea how they would work that with The Sims - but one of the VR people thought it would not be a constant game in VR - it would be something you would be alerted to put on the VR headset when some action was about to happen. One of the games demoed was a police kind of scene where you had a gunfight as you walked on a twisty path, and you had to shoot the bad guy, but save the good guys along the path. I did not get far enough to get a score. LOL.