Will The Sims 5 ever compete with inZOI?

Is inZOI going to kill off The Sims 5/Project Renee?

[pammy]

I mean, Inzoi's demo has already been miles better than anything The Sims 4 could accomplish. Even though EA had the ability to move forward with its game 10 yrs ago, they decided to go backwards and sit on their laurels. They're toast.

[katrinaf]

I really like how they don't move or smile or make weird noises during creation. Idk why, but it is such a pet peeve of mine in sims 4

[aduboo]

After watching InZOI videos since they started coming up, seeing Sims 4 again was weirdly jarring. I can see its age now in a way I wasn't seeing a week ago. 😐

[BrianZatzke]

The crazy thing is that you can play with the cartoon filter and it’s a blend of sims 4 and paralives…. So, they thought of a lot of features to bring in the EA players

[miyavi]

I've noticed the thing with the 'base game' too. And also that people are constantly talking about DLCs and what modders can do with the game. You just notice how conditioned people are to think in these terms, instead of seeing that what EA is doing with the Sims is absolutely not normal. Not everything has to be DLC and not everything has to be done by modders, you can and should expect that from the developers, that's what you're paying for in the end.
Great video, Satch, as always. Have a nice week!

[JStack]

The fact they went from “you can’t drive cars places, ” to “we have a whole car marketplace and you can drive yourself, traffic included.” Is SO encouraging. Imagine if back in 2015 there was a holiday update with cars for sims 4. That’s how fast they added the feature.

A couple small content creators I follow go early access and several of their easy fix requests such as can’t invite someone over if they’re a certain distance away, were fixed same week. The team seems to really have a grasp on their game and how they built it, which makes maintaining and adding so much more efficient and quality.

My PC will just plain and simple not be able to run it, but maybe it can go the route of cyberpunk and by this time next year the optimizations will be in place for mid to above mid tier PCs to run it.

The fact they’re using UE5 SKILLFULLY and not some proprietary EA garbage means there is a global ecosystem of applicants, addons, and development partnerships for Inzoi to use to grow. I mean there’s a hundred vaporware games on steam right now using UE5 built in “Humans, ” feature making games “look good, ” but none of them can even do UI improvements let alone system reworks.

TLDR Inzoi is making the most of UE5 and is already responding to community feedback better in 6 months of playtesting than the 15 years sims has had from sims 3 to now. All hail Korean gaming studios

[littlem]

This hair colour looks beautiful on you oml

[lunaredgrave]

If I remember correctly, Will Wright himself once said that The Sims needed more competition. But maybe it wasn't really a risk people would want to take at the time. Even Will Wright was told that The Sims would flop, but he took the risk anyway. Perhaps the genre needed its giant (the Sims) to fall for others to rise.

[lishan]

I'm probably in minority, but I really don't care about Sims 5, like, maybe just a little as a curious person, how it will be. But given how much I invested in Sims 4, how many times I got disappointed by Sims 4, I dont care much of a franchise now. Sims 4 can be developed for another 10 years, I would be fine with it. All I want now is good simulation games like Paralives or Inzoi. Sims is done to me at this point, no matter what they release

[Mara-owff]

Inzoi looks like an upgraded version of Sims 3 with its own uniqueness. Quite frankly, Inzoi is what older Sims players have been asking for years, and Maxis and EA just refused to listen. I don't think Inzoi will take away all Sims players because you need a good gaming computer to run it, but I can see that EA and Maxis will have some serious competition.

[warzshadow]

The fact that we will be getting so much stuff that Sims hides behind expansion/game packs in the base game of InZoi..is just mega kudos for InZoi. Will my PC run it? I hope so.

[second_second_]

Inzoi art style is more like my cup of tea, compared to the western cartoon sims 4. Love it. I like Final Fantasy art style, maybe that's why

[ikindaforgot]

EA didn't make sims 1, 2 and 3 though. Maxis did, why they're so good.

[RPhTN]

I think if EA will continue to put up half assed expansion packs to gamers and not focus on repairing the broken packs people will eventually get tired of the sims and leave it behind. I know, I did. I love the Sims, I played it growing up from sims 2 to sims 4 but witnessing your childhood game slowly die from a disease EA constantly feed, it became a deal breaker for me.

Inzoi is like a breath of fresh air imo. It’s like they knew what simmers wanted and made it into a game. I’m excited. Will it replace the sims? I HOPE NOT. The Sims is a household name but reputation-wise? Yea, if TS4 won’t better their game, they’ll probably leave a bad impression in the long run and force desperate simmers to play Inzoi instead.

[granujja]

InZOI is offering us things we've been wanting for years in the sims 4 and also implementing features we could only get through mods in the sims 4... InZOI really understood the assignment. The only thing I'm worried about is the monetization system they'll chose... DLC, MTX, subscription...?? 🤔 Also can't wait to see what's gonna be EA's attitude from now on

[warzshadow]

I have a feeling if the Sims doesn't get S4 fixed with all the bugs and glitches very soon, when InZoi comes out alot of people will jump games.

[Switchblades.x]

I hope they make InZoi moddable. The sims mod community carry the entire sims franchise so I hope these developers take advantage of that.

[rummagingchaos]

i can see myself spending hours in character creation mode. the gameplay looks fun, i like how in depth relationships are and the animations of Zois having conversations. will it replace the sims? probably not. but i can see this game eating up a lot of time i would spend on Sims 4

[mandalorianmama]

If they had as much detail on avatars while in play as they do in CAS, most machines wouldn't be able to function during game play. You would have stuttering and crashing. It's too much data

[theredbutterfly-]

Competition is crucial. Otherwise gaming companies become greedy and keep releasing broken products. No reason for them to do better cause people are going to buy it anyway since it's the only offer for the genre. But thank God it's about to change !