Hey, are you sitting down? I've got some shocking news for you, and I don't know if you're going to be prepared for it -- Electronic Arts has folks working on The Sims 4. It hasn't been announced yet, and while I have them, I don't need sources to back this one up. Why? Well, The Sims 3 sold 1.4 million copies during its first week on shelves. You do the math.

Here's some not-so-damning evidence of its existence -- a domain name! Back in July, Electronic Arts registered the domain TheSims4.com. Squatters take note, I've noticed that EA has also registered TheSims5.com, TheSims6.com, TheSims7.com, and then I stopped checking because this is getting ridiculous.

I don't believe TheSimsLivingTheHighLifeOMGWTF.com or TheSimsBedIntruder.com have been taken, so there's that.

From what birdies have told me, The Sims 4 is a "from the ground up" operation, and it's going to be massive. Emphasis on the "massive."

[SystemlinkE via VG247]

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

DefiantBadger

Oh my science...

lewness

Future DLC allows your Sim to buy a computer that can play, get this, "The Sims". Recursion with no base case FTW.

sprldr

I'm stunned that nobody registered ‘TheSims4.com’ before July.

TheDreadHawk

I want them to release more stuff for The Sims 3. I have a filthy guilty pleasure addiction to that game.

AgentMOO

The question is, will the Sims X be a 10th game or its own spinoff?

UltorOscariot

The Sims is one of those games for me that it's always much more interesting to read about what other, apparently more creative and patient people are doing than actually playing it myself.

The Silent Protagonist

I will express my feelings in Sim-speak:

Hassa mo visa, baby.

Raminashamina, dopped R.

Ramma-namma.

Pangloss

!!!

amtalx

I guess you can't claim EA doesn't plan ahead.

king kong five

THEY STILL HAVEN'T FIXED THE SIMS 3. WHAT ARE THEY DOING. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, EA.

runtheplacered

@ king kong five,

"THEY STILL HAVEN'T FIXED THE SIMS 3. WHAT ARE THEY DOING. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, EA."

planning for the future?

TheDukeofNukem

Is this what gaming news has become?

Kraid

I'm glad to know that my grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandchildren will still be able to play The Sims decades from now.

Thank you EA.

runtheplacered

Just give me simcity 5 :(

Excel-2011

It's going to be an MMO.

Strandli

I hope they make Sims 5 before Sims 4. The Sims 4 sounds kinda lame, and probably will be more of the same. But Sims 5 is probably amazing! So hope they make that first.

UltorOscariot

Didn't they already do an MMO? Or did the remnants of that team walk in and plaster Riccatello's office with this?

HombreGato

Sales will be much lower this time around, I predict. The Sims 3 mod community is a cruel joke compared to The Sims 2. (why the game is unfriendly to modders is a question modders can answer)

Even the first Sims was a game driven by mods (in that case mostly superhero costume and nude skins.)

Sure people rushed out to buy the third one but now they know EA can't be trusted.

Plus I think EA laid off a bunch of people from Maxis. Nothing about this looks promising.