The Sims Four has made $1 billion, and obtained practically 5 million new gamers in 2018

Even if you happen to – like me – fell off of The Sims a while earlier than the discharge of the third game, you could be to study that the sequence continues to be very profitable and extremely worthwhile. EA says that The Sims Four has now introduced in additional than $1 billion over its lifetime, and it’s persevering with to usher in new gamers even now, practically half a decade after launch.

“Our Sims 4 community grew by 4.8 million unique players last year, our monthly active players continued to grow year-over-year and we just crossed $1 billion in lifetime revenue for the game.” EA CEO Andrew Wilson says. “We continue to have strong expectations for The Sims going forward.”

These numbers virtually actually embrace the console variations launched in 2017, although in all probability not the cellular version – despite the fact that that’s based mostly on The Sims 4, it’s distinct and launched below a separate title. This information comes as a part of EA’s third quarter monetary report, the place the corporate additionally mentioned its sturdy sales expectations for Anthem. Wilson’s quotes come courtesy of the earnings name’s official transcript, as famous by SimsVIP.

Wilson additionally notes that “we are bringing at least 20 new content drops and expansion packs to our Sims games across PC, mobile and console” within the new fiscal yr, which runs from April 2019 to March 2020. Your Sims growth pack jokes are simply as related now as they had been in 2001.

We did the maths on The Sims 4 DLC prices final yr. I shudder to think about what the whole shall be in one other 12 months.

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For context, a Gamespot article reported that on the tenth anniversary of The Sims franchise – which by then already included the primary three fundamental games, uncountable expansions, and all method of console spin-offs – the games had introduced in over $2.5 billion in income. If The Sims Four alone has made $1 billion in lower than 5 years, it appears this sequence hasn’t slowed down a bit.