The Sims franchise is transferring past linear, sequential online game releases, in keeping with franchise vp and normal supervisor Kate Gorman Revelli. As a substitute of transferring on to The Sims 5, changing The Sims 4, Digital Arts and developer Maxis will proceed to help The Sims 4, including onto the franchise by creating subsequent to it, not changing it.
“A lot of the best way folks play The Sims is about expressing themselves and their creativity and discovering their very own set of targets to pursue inside the recreation, however what brings them again is their attachment to these little folks that they’ve constructed,” Gorman Revelli instructed Polygon. “We additionally know that we’re not going to go to a linear mannequin, as a result of now we have a lot with The Sims 4. What we’re actually taking a look at is, how will we proceed to work with our neighborhood, work with our gamers, and never have you will have this second in time the place you’re going to reset all of your progress and lose these wonderful reminiscences, characters, and issues that you simply’ve constructed inside these 10 years of your gameplay, doubtlessly?”
Confused? Up till now, most individuals thought-about Venture Rene as The Sims 5. However that’s not fully proper. Venture Rene will exist alongside The Sims 4 and different video games as a multiplayer element. “We wish to proceed to increase, so if you wish to play that type of multiplayer expertise, that’ll be what you search for within the issues we’ve talked about about Venture Rene,” she stated. The primary actual have a look at what to anticipate there may be scheduled for later this 12 months, in keeping with Gorman Revelli, as a part of its new experimental testing grounds, The Sims Labs.
“Once more, it’s a complementary expertise to all of the issues — it’s not a linear expertise,” she stated. “There’s lots we’ll be seeing within the playtest, however the core piece to know what Rene is we’re actually taking a look at a approach to make The Sims playable collectively. That’s what we’ll be persevering with to iterate on and study with the neighborhood.”
Gorman Revelli was clear that The Sims will proceed to evolve and improve. In a publish on The Sims’ weblog, The Sims 4 was described as “a foundational Sims expertise” that’ll proceed to be modernized. So will there ever be a recreation known as The Sims 5? The reply seems like no. However that doesn’t imply the Sims expertise isn’t going to vary or evolve; no matter would fall, maybe, fifth in line as a mainline Sims recreation (Rene or not!) shouldn’t be a alternative for The Sims 4 — it’s a continuation of it.
