Here we are again trying to divine the future of The Sims from an announcement about the future of The Sims.
I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day because the year was 2022 when I first watched EA tease the “next generation Sims game” with the codename Project Rene. Two years later it said “actually that’s not the Sims 5 though” and spent another year being weird and silent before finally admitting today that yeah, Project Rene is now a mobile game. Simultaneously though, it made sure to mention that a huge portion of the team is working on “the next evolution.” Here we go again.
In its start of year blog post today, EA says it is “committed to singleplayer life simulation experiences”, and reiterated that it is continuing to work on updates and improvements to The Sims 4. After that, it coyly adds:
“Singleplayer PC and console experiences will always be a part of our future, with more than half of our global development team dedicated to The Sims 4 and the next evolution.
