Sims 4 On Console

The Sims 4 is a 10-year-running game and counting. It was first released in 2014 on console and PC and has been going strong ever since. However, The Sims has always looked different between PC and Console versions.

What do I mean?

How can a game change so much between the PC and Console versions? What makes them so different? Why does the difference mean that Console Players seem to complain less when it comes to the Sims 4?

Well, let me tell you. The Sims have had several different versions of console games. For the GameCube alone, it sported two different sims games. The Sims 2 and the Sims Busting out. While I don't remember much of the Sims busting out, I remember the Sims 2 vividly since it was my first exposure to the franchise. The Sims 2 on GameCube allowed you to create one character. This was your main character, and while it worked as a standard life simulation, there were boards that you had to unlock by completing wants and needs. Complete these wants and needs and travel to the next board. You can also directly control your character and play with two players. Player two could create a character, and you could do couch play. That doesn't even sound close to the Sims 2 on PC, right? Well, that's not all. In the Sims 2 for GameCube, you couldn't have kids. But, you could do it in Sims 2 for the PlayStation. For The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, they moved to the more traditional point-and-click sims that PC players would know, confusing many console players. However, now you can make families. You get the gist: the console versions of the Sims were far different from the PC, but there was still more.

As I stated, with the Xbox 360, you could create families, but then they released the next game. The Sims 3 Pets on console. If you didn't have this game, you couldn't play with pets. No cats, dogs, or anything. This made console players of the Sims 3 buy the game just to find out that it is a whole different game, meaning that you couldn't transfer your already-made families in the Sims 3 to the Sims 3 pets. So you had to create a new family all over again. It was infuriating. Fast forward now to the Sims 4 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox. It was exactly like the PC version except for one thing. Console players couldn't get DLC at the time, so while PC players could buy additional items for the Sims 4, Console Players couldn't. Not only that, but PC Players also had mods that Console Players couldn't have. In fact, while PC players had DLC and Mods for their versions of Sims 2, 3, and 4, Console players didn't until one day, E.A. finally announced that Console Players would be getting DLC. This brought many Console Players back to the Sims 4 and ultimately drove up sales for packs and content. They started releasing everything that was on PC for Console, and this is why they complain less.

If you are a Console player like me and have played the sim console games, then you know all the cool things that PC players talk about with their sim games we never had. PC players don't understand that, as console players, we never had life states like aliens, mermaids, vampires, and werewolves; we didn't have these different worlds and NPCs that they had. The features such as University or driving cars were something Console players never got. The Sims 4 added so much for Console players that they never had in the previous games, such as occults, horses, bowling, butlers, and so much more. While all of these packs are more than just expensive, they gave Sims Console players a taste of what PC gamers have had for years, so when PC gamers for the Sims complain about no cars, no underwater world, no genies, or fairies, or other activities, we don't really know what that was like to begin with. For PC players, the Sims 4 may be the worst game in the franchise, but it is the best for Console Players.

For any PC players, look up the gameplay for the Console Sims games. If you have an old console, buy one of these games and tell me that you wouldn't go back to the luxury of the Sims you have on PC. I and many other console players like Sims 4 because we can be equal to the PC players.