i always have wanted the sims 4 on the nintendo switch. its the console i play the most on getting the sims would be amazing as im a huge fan but ea came recently and said that the game wont fit to switch players and i was confused the sims 4 is PERFECT for the switch imo the touch screen can make the game easy to play and the portability allows me to play anywhere and i bet it would sell crazy on there! i hope ea changes their mind and puts the game on the system they have no excuse not to at this point
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i just got so emo, i fell apart.
Considering the switch’s popularity, there will be a very good reason for the decision not to port to switch, perhaps notnow anyhow.
Since up until now majority of sims games have just been spin offs. Think it could handle a spin off well if it was directly made for the system. Though I noticed majority of sim games always had a problem with performance on gaming systems. Back in the day the Urbz well, even NOW it still runs very poorly from freezing to lagging.
na it can games like skyrim and witcher 3 run on it thats definitetly not the problem
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the ps4 and xbox versions of the game are not well optimized tbh i have the ps4 edtion and i feel like if they work on it more than can make it better
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EA might think the market is not big enough, they have said that they think that people who own a nintendo switch often owns a ps4 or xbox as well.
EA might think that people that play on the switch would not buy a lot of dlc. The console does have limited storage space.
Or it could be that the engine they use for the sims4 would not run well on the nintendo switch.
With proper optimization running the game shouldn’t be an issue. Sims 4 was designed for low end computers, the current console releases take advantage of the advanced graphics of the high/ultra PC game settings which would be the only thing I would guess switch can’t do. PS/XB are focused on visuals (4K, HDR, etc), with Switch you sacrifice that and some processing power for the console being portable.
I’d assume a switch version of the game would look like Sims 4 on low/medium settings, but with it’s screen resolution that wouldn’t be much of an issue. Storage would be the biggest issue as the PC game is over 30GB and growing. They could slim that down during dev of course but it would still be fairly large for the whole library of DLC.
ETA: the bottom line is a switch port would require a lot of work, not saying the current console ports didn’t but they took the entire PC game and ported it to console without changing much of anything, which would not be an option for switch.
Game on!
~EA_Joz
I’ve seen so many third party titles get ported to switch and have downgraded graphics and performance issues. I wouldn’t be bothered about The Sims in Switch (or any game) if I had a better version on a better console? (Or pc)
I think the sheer size of the game would also cause issues.
Good video about the subject.