Alright, here we are again. It's been more than 8 years since the release of the 4th generation of The Sims and now here we are - officially speculating about the 5th generation of the game (Project Rene). I personally think they will call it The Sims 5, especially if its going to have DLCs (EPs and SPs). Now lemme ask all of you - when do you think we will hear more about it + when will they announce it as a Sims game + release date ? I personally think they will call it The Sims 5 (as i said xD), we will hear more about it next year (3-4 times), it will get officially announced as The Sims 5 on a big gaming event (E3, gamescom) in 2024 with a release date of 2025 - 2(5)th anniversary of The Sims, 202(5), The Sims (5). All those 5s xD.
*Also - a really possible timeline is everything above but +1 year (2025 announcement, 2026 release)
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The studio usually stops creating content 1 years before the release date of a new game.
2025 is also quarter century anniversary of the franchise, The Sims 5 could be The Sims (as the only Sims game on PC/Mac, console and mobile)
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI would like it to be called Sims 5 but I don't really mind. All I care about is having extremely better sims AI and really good graphics but the fact they are developing this with the thought of integrating your phone with the game makes my hopes pretty low. I have absolutely no idea who would personally use a feature like that lmao. Imagine like your on the bus and you think to yourself "omg I need to place a couch in my game" like what??
The phone thing is a slippery slope and can really destroy this game before it's even out.
Yup, that's what I think too. They will post sneak peaks and updates through 2023 and 2024.
It's still a live service so they can release the game when they want, the development will continue after this date.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionAlso did you guys notice they added all threads about TS5 into this section? Some of the threads were made months ago is this confirmation of it being called Sims 5 lmao??
It's confirmation that I moved all the Sims 5 threads out of Off Topic because I hated putting them there.
Off topic but in the preview, the graphics seemed really good for a game that is in its early stages. I'm really interested to see how it's going to look in its final stages.
They usually release during the fall so it would be fall 2025 if they release in that year.
The Sims 2 release date was in January 2004 but the game was released in September.
The Sims 3 release date was on February 20, 2009 but the game was released in June.
The Sims 4 release date was for Early 2014 but the game was released in September.
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The Sims 4 General Discussion2022 Project René is announced
2023
2024 The Sims 5 game is announced
2025 Release date (Live service : the game updates will finish the game during the next years)
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionRight, September is a popular month.
Sims 3 started around 2006 and ended up being a 2009 launch.
Sims 4 started around 2010 and ended up with a 2014 launch (note the major pivot in 2013 from multiplayer to a singleplayer game engine, which likely extended the development time).
Sims 5 started around 2017 2019
Sims 4 never really ended up in 2014, ghost, pool, 64-bit, console and toddler came until 2017.
Even until 2020 with 64-bit only and Gallery for console.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionActually, nope it just started much more recently-that's why they so early on in devlopment
They had to choose the engine first.
We saw a prototype which means they already created some content, dev tools and the core of the game (beta UI, features, ...).
Don't forget the development is for mobile devices, console and computer.
Previously The Sims games were developed for computer only.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionCan you share your source on the 2017 start date?
here:
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/entertainment/1831069-the-sims-5-is-under-progress-new-job-openings-studio-director-talks-on-next-gen-game
and
here:
https://simscommunity.info/2022/07/20/ea-starts-working-on-assistive-mobile-features-for-the-sims-5/
Maybe not 2017 but SimGuruGrant left TS4 team for an unknown project in 2019 as Senior Producer, now he become Game Director on Project Rene.
https://simscommunity.info/2019/04/30/more-clues-are-adding-up-that-the-sims-5-is-currently-being-developed/
https://www.thegamer.com/sims-5-everything-we-know/1/
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI agree also because of only ONE unique game for all platforms, the end of The Sims (mobile), The Sims (console) and The Sims (PC/Mac).
SimCity (1989) -> 24 years later -> SimCity (2013), 5th SimCity game
The Sims (2000) -> 25? years later -> The Sims (2025?), 5th Sims game
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionIf Grant is the Senior Producer on project Renee then it's going to be more of TS3 so I don't have high expectations from it. They've already brought back the colour wheel which, while it was fun to use, caused lots of performance issues in TS3 and textures that loaded and unloaded and made the game unplayable. I hope this workshop thing they showed during the summit is some external software much like Bodyshop was for TS2 and not an in-game thing.
"Will Project Rene be a single player experience, or will there be a multiplayer option?
Players will have the choice to play a single player experience or collaborate with others through online multiplayer across supported devices. "