Electronic Arts is “feverishly developing” The Sims Project Rene.
While we wait for more full stacked news developments on The Sims Project Rene and The Sims Movie, we get a glimpse of what’s going on behind the scenes with the game’s development. As well as future plans for The Sims Movie and the game’s franchise.
In an exclusive interview with Variety, EA Entertainment’s president Laura Miele shared more about their vision for The Sims Franchise. Where they currently stand with the development of The Sims Project Rene, as well as what activations should player expect with The Sims Movie.
Read the full paragraph from Variety shared about The Sims below:
Laura Miele on The Sims Project Rene
While EA has remained largely mum and very teasing on its upcoming multiplayer offering for “The Sims” franchise, Miele confirms it now “represents one of the biggest growth opportunities for Electronic Arts” moving forward and the team is “hard at work and feverishly developing what this [multiplayer] platform is going to be.”
“What we’re doing is upgrading and refreshing all this technology, and we’ll be adding modes of play — but we also are going to be creating and updating the base technology and the base user experience on the core game,” Miele said. “So you’re going to have this life simulation, you’re going to have multiplayer capabilities, we are going to have mobile expressions of this. We’re doing cozy games as well and more to come on that. We did a release with Nintendo on cozy games in Asia for ‘The Sims.’ I see ‘The Sims’ as a significant ecosystem, and a universe of multiple ‘Sims’ experiences that we have to build on.”
While some fans have expressed disappointment the game isn’t going to the traditional sequel game route with a “The Sims 5,” Miele maintains this is for the best for the larger community of Simmers.
“What I wouldn’t want to have happen is you to have to start from day zero and start from scratch and give up all of the things that you have created, give up all of the content that you’ve purchased over the years,” Miele said. “We put out over 85 content packs over the last 10 years on ‘The Sims 4,’ and so resetting that is not player friendly and not a good idea for our community.”
The Sims Movie Talks
EA’s biggest transmedia project at the moment is the upcoming “The Sims” movie from Amazon MGM Studios and Margot Robbie’s LuckChap Entertainment, which was finally the “right creative partnership” for a film that Miele says the team has been talking about for “years and years and years.” (“The Sims” video game franchise celebrated its 25th anniversary this year.)
Miele says EA is currently considering significant opportunities for tie-ins with “The Sims” games upon the release of “The Sims” movie.
“Where we sit today, from a technology perspective, innovation perspective, we are in a moment where we can actually co-create content and be a multiplier for each other and have these great experiences for fans,” Miele said. “It’s going to be so full circle and so fulfilling to bring content in a linear way and an interactive way, simultaneously, and even have it adapt to fans and how things are going. When we have a couple of ideas about how we would go to market with a movie and a couple of different expressions, I just think the opportunity is so ripe.”
– Source
What are your thoughts on the news bit about The Sims Project Rene? We’re still itching for more gameplay previews and development sneak peeks to back up any suspicion.
Until then, what are your hopes for Project Rene and The Sims Movie? Join the comments below!
Thanks to @etozheden for the news tip!
So they don’t want people to start over by releasing a new game, yet they’re releasing a new game? That makes no sense. Having 4 run along side it doesn’t solve that problem.
It makes perfect sense.
You keep getting new updates and packs for TS4, I get to play a brand new game with modern technology. Win-win.
I will not be playing 4 lol it needs to be put out of its misery
Then your comment makes even less sense
Completely agree. If you want to play 4 side by side no one is keeping anyone from doing that. But after all this time it sims franchise is more than ready for sims 5 which they are to greedy to release
The sims 4 are brain dead, the engine doesn’t work anymore, it’s buggy everywhere, we already have more than 100 expansions, the updates only bring more bugs, you think the game will support another 50 expansions without bugs, and frankly, the game is no longer fun at all. Starting from scratch on the sims 5 would have been the best solution, I think 10 years is too long, I don’t see myself still playing the sims 4 in 5 years, this game will be 15 years old by then.
I want a new game, I don’t play TS4. Ignore it.
Guppy 🙂
Gee, I was just starting college when this game was released. Some people had babies of their own in the meantime. But, unfortunately, that’s quite a common practice among greedy companies: they don’t release new generation of a popular game for a very, very long time (I’m looking at you, GTA 5).
I don’t like the art style they chose for this. It’s doughy and has that mass produced mobile phone/steam game vibe. Just from the visuals alone I’d expect to be hit with three ads every 15 seconds that I’d have to skip but will open my AppStore trying to get me to buy these lousy games. Then within a couple weeks or months you’ll start seeing like five fast-gaming companies with their version of whatever this is and it’s all the same garbage.
Love the Sims, and would love it forever as long as they can keep it out there, come on guys all I’m asking for is a couple more years,
So people seem to prefer to get a sims 5 and pay for all of the dlcs again?
I’m a simmer and sims 5 would be great with better graphics and gameplay and more things to do and more realistic. But my key thing is it’s an investment buying the packs and to buy a new game and respend the same amount of money again is diabolical. Make a way to transfer purchased game packs to the new game so we don’t have to buy them all over again cause that highway robbery. If you’re keeping sims4 that’s major update for the game to change the graphics and gameplay and add whatever else you guys plan to add
People talk about so many errors and such with Sims4, well I’m not running a super computer with a hyped up graphics card and I have very few errors. The odd time there is a slow down while the Sim changes from one action to another. That’s understandable, its software. Errors I get are almost always connected to CC and Mods I’m using. Pretty rare for it to be the base game or packs. I fix the mod problems with an update or a decision to stop using an older mod without updates. I don’t find errors to be a real issue (for me).
I like the Sims4 graphics. The alpha versions of CC look a little freakish to me. I did not like INoi (spelling is wrong) because of the graphics and I did not want to spend more $ or time learning another game. I have no interest in seeing a Sims5, and I’m not keen on Project Renee, because each new thing isn’t really so great and different from the game I’m already playing (and have paid a lot for). Do you really think a new game is going to be so much superior, error free? I’m sure it won’t be. I don’t see any great gains from a new version of basically the same game.