Electronic Arts announced today that The Sims franchise has sold over 100 million units worldwide. Since the first game in the series launched in 2000, it has gone on to be the best-selling PC game franchise of all time. Currently, The Sims is sold in one form or another in 22 languages and 60 countries around the world.
"At this milestone, we want to thank players of The Sims everywhere for making The Sims such a worldwide phenomenon," said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims Label. "The Sims has been an interactive experience for people around the globe to explore their passion for creativity and we're thrilled to be a part of that. From building houses and relationships, from the first kiss to a toddler's first step, from kitchen fires – and even visits from ghosts, players have told more than 100 million unique and fun stories!"
KeenGamer: "From IKEA homeware to fun kids' stuff, let's rank all the Stuff Packs for The Sims 2. Expansion Packs gave us lots of great new ways to play, but Stuff Packs allowed you to deck your Sims out in cool new outfits and jazz up their homes with great new objects."
A voice actor for The Sims spoke about his experiences doing voice work for the game's fictional Simlish language, and how there was no dictionary for them
Xfire writes "It's not often that a video game franchise becomes successful enough that it gets a spin-off title or two. However, while most spin-offs help expand the base, some spin-off games end up being better than the original."
Zombie Army 4 was incredible, it just inches out Sniper Elite 4 which was also incredible.
That's like....one out of every 60 people on the planet earth that has played the sims...
Freaky.
100 Million sold... what about illegal downloads ? ... 500 million ??? ... 1 billion ????
That's a lot of people playing Sims.