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13th Jun 2020 at 12:00 AM
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Consoles are sort of in the news just now as I hear that Nintendo and Microsoft are about to bring out new versions of the Play Station and X-Box respectively. I suppose it is hopeless to think that EA might respond to this news by bringing out new releases of the best life simulation game ever made (Sim 2 of course) for these improved platforms. Especially since Coronavirus lockdown has made computer video games more popular than ever before. I suppose the team that developed Sims 2 has long since been broken up, but why not franchise The Sims 2 to a smaller leaner company to develop for a niche market, while continuing to pay EA royalties?
I can recall a time when these games consoles were considered to have better graphics than the PC. Not surprising really when you consider that the original IBM PC was developed as a business machine, with very limited graphical capabilities. It had a loudspeaker that could go "beep". I also recall that for a while after Windows had taken over the business computing world, most high end games were still using MS-DOS as Windows graphics had too slow a refresh rate for video-based games.
Not that I ever owned a games console myself. I'm one of the PC players that Simsfreq described in her post 4 years ago I bought a PC for work and found I could play Sims 2 on it. And got totally hooked by it. Because it is quite simply the best life simulation game ever yet developed.!
All Sims are beautiful -- even the ugly ones.
My Simblr ~~
My LJ
Sims' lives matter!
The Veronaville kids are alright.