The Sims franchise is transferring past linear, sequential online game releases, in keeping with franchise vice chairman and common 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 assist The Sims 4, including onto the franchise by growing subsequent to it, not changing it.
“A lot of the best way individuals play The Sims is about expressing themselves and their creativity and discovering their very own set of objectives to pursue throughout the recreation, however what brings them again is their attachment to these little those that they’ve constructed,” Gorman Revelli instructed gamerlifemedia. “We additionally know that we’re not going to go to a linear mannequin, as a result of we have now a lot with The Sims 4. What we’re actually taking a look at is, how will we proceed to work with our group, work with our gamers, and never have you might have this second in time the place you’re going to reset all of your progress and lose these superb reminiscences, characters, and issues that you just’ve constructed inside these 10 years of your gameplay, probably?”
Confused? Up till now, most individuals thought-about Undertaking Rene as The Sims 5. However that’s not totally proper. Undertaking Rene will exist alongside The Sims 4 and different video games as a multiplayer part. “We need to proceed to increase, so if you wish to play that form of multiplayer expertise, that’ll be what you search for within the issues we’ve talked about about Undertaking Rene,” she stated. The primary actual have a look at what to anticipate there’s 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 loads we’ll be seeing within the playtest, however the core piece to know what Rene is we’re actually taking a look at a option to make The Sims playable collectively. That’s what we’ll be persevering with to iterate on and be taught with the group.”
Gorman Revelli was clear that The Sims will proceed to evolve and improve. In a put up 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 feels 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!) is not a alternative for The Sims 4 — it’s a continuation of it.