Over half of The Sims growth group is engaged on The Sims 4 and 'the following evolution' so I suppose it's time to begin speculating once more
I really feel like Invoice Murray in Groundhog Day as a result of the 12 months was 2022 after I first watched EA tease the “subsequent era Sims sport” with the codename Challenge Rene. Two years later it mentioned “really that is not the Sims 5 although” and spent one other 12 months being bizarre and silent earlier than lastly admitting immediately that yeah, Challenge Rene is now a cellular sport. Concurrently although, it made positive to say that a large portion of the group is engaged on “the following evolution.” Right here we go once more.
In its begin of 12 months weblog publish immediately, EA says it’s “dedicated to singleplayer life simulation experiences,” and reiterated that it’s persevering with to work on updates and enhancements to The Sims 4. After that, it coyly provides:
The current rumors level to something from a Sims 4 code base rewrite to a full remake, although the grist for that mill was largely unsubstantial vague-posting from unconfirmed sources. After all of the hubbub about it, well-known Sims 4 modder SimMattically stepped in to place a damper on issues by posting, “there’s no Sims 4 remaster.”
So it is possible not engaged on a remaster and sure not engaged on The Sims 5, however is engaged on a “subsequent evolution,” and crucially one which’s singleplayer, not one other try at taking The Sims on-line.
The one different trace we’ve is EA’s investor presentation from 2024, throughout which it introduced (and has nonetheless by no means actually defined) a platform referred to as The Sims Hub to unify The Sims 4 with Challenge Rene and different Sims video games. Throughout the identical presentation, EA leisure & expertise president Laura Miele mentioned that the group could be “updating the core expertise basis” of The Sims 4. The path for Challenge Rene appears to have shifted in that point although, so I might hesitate to place an excessive amount of inventory in every other plans EA introduced over a 12 months in the past.
This tiny acknowledgement of one thing else within the Sims group pipeline appears like a bone thrown to maintain all us life sim canines from snarling over the affirmation that Challenge Rene actually is simply the cellular sport we do not need. At this level although, this drained outdated Sims hound will take it.