Challenge Rene, the codename for the subsequent main Sims sport, is not cancelled. In actual fact, EA will likely be performing some closed multiplayer testing this fall. However the in-development sport we have often referred to as “The Sims 5” is not really The Sims 5 in any respect, it says. Challenge Rene and The Sims 4 are each going to be a part of “the Sims universe” for the foreseeable future.
Throughout an Electronic Arts investor presentation immediately, EA leisure & know-how president Laura Miele gave a way more thorough breakdown of The Sims sequence’ future than usually comes out of investor-facing displays.
“Historically, after each launch we’d change one model with one other, ranging from scratch,” Miele stated of The Sims video games 1-3. “Nicely, we’re going to disrupt the sequel mannequin. We’re investing in an enormous Sims platform.”
There are plenty of buzzwords right here, the sorts of issues buyers like, however the lengthy and brief is that EA is planning for 4 totally different Sims video games—The Sims 4, Challenge Rene, My Sims, and a brand new cell sport codenamed “Challenge Tales”—to all share creator instruments, a single person content material gallery, market, and a social community it is constructing.
“We are going to carry ahead the great engagement and volumes of content material … to make Sims 4 the muse of our future development technique,” Miele says. “We will likely be updating the core know-how basis for the product and we’ll launch enjoyable and thrilling content material for a few years to return.”
It appears like a wild factor to say a few now-10-year-old sport the place every new growth produces a slew of bugs because it struggles to cohabitate with the handfuls of different DLCs. Although I assume this does clarify why EA has not too long ago committed a new team to specializing in fixing bugs: The “updating the core know-how” of The Sims 4 a part of the plan goes to require plenty of religion.
The announcement lastly solutions the query I’ve had for over a yr about how Challenge Rene will likely be associated to The Sims 4. Beforehand EA has made obscure statements about persevering with to “help” The Sims 4, which I would assumed was extra a reference to high quality of life updates, not lively continued improvement.
In a blog post today, Maxis additionally started speaking in regards to the twenty fifth anniversary of The Sims sequence that is arising in February. It plans to host one other Behind The Sims presentation in January to speak extra in regards to the sequence as an entire, which is able to seemingly embody some extra discuss Challenge Rene.
