More Details Emerge On EA's Cancelled 3DS Title MySims Friends

StreetPass connectivity was planned for this "online only" outing

by Damien McFerran Mon 19th Sep 2016

While EA's relationship with Nintendo has cooled in recent years, during the DS and Wii era the two companies were very close, with EA releasing numerous games aimed at families on the consoles.

One franchise which really found its feet on Nintendo platforms was MySims, a spin-off of the popular Sims series which was aimed at a much younger audience. EA had planned on bringing the series to the 3DS back in 2010, with Behavior Interactive handling the development duties.

Developer Xavier Garcia has previously shared concept artwork for MySims Friends but has now revealed more information about the unreleased title. According to Garcia, StreetPass and "other Nintendo connectivity" was planned, and MySims Friends would essentially be an "online only game".

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How this would have worked when your 3DS wasn't near a WiFi hotspot is anyone's guess, but the notion of a connected and constantly changing title is certainly interesting. Sadly EA didn't think the game was worth pursuing and development was cancelled quite early on.

Would you have liked to have played this title on your 3DS? Share your thoughts with a comment.

[source nintendoeverything.com, via mysims.wikia.com]

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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DragonEleven
Mon 19th Sep 2016

I think they got off to a good start with the MySims games, but then they just seemed to run out of ideas... this does look different enough that it might have saved the series, but online only would have ruined it.

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HappyMaskedGuy
Mon 19th Sep 2016

The less EA titles out there, the better. Good riddance.

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Sisilly_G
Mon 19th Sep 2016

I would love a port of the first Sims game on PC (or at least something like it) on 3DS. With the dual/touch screen interface, the 3DS would be perfect. Instead, EA served up crap like The Sims 3 that utilised the graphical capabilities of the 3DS at the expense of a playable game.

Or hell, give us a story-based game in the spirit of The Sims: Bustin' Out, The Urbz or The Sims 2 on DS. I loved those games. The franchise went down the toilet across all platforms shortly after anyway.

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DinklingBoy
Mon 19th Sep 2016

BRING BACK MYSIMS IT WAS AWESOME.... (but we don't talk about SkyHeroes)

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Haiassai
Mon 19th Sep 2016

@HappyMaskedGuy The only thing is: EA doesn't make bad games. They have terrible business policies — that should be remedied, not wishing that there were less games.

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Anti-Matter
Mon 19th Sep 2016

MySims was my Love at First Sight Western games.
Tottemo kawaii desu .
Of course, with Japanese fusion.
Too bad, no more MySims right now

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Anti-Matter
Mon 19th Sep 2016

@Haiassai
I remembered during MySims Wii games era, there are some scrapped ideas (Characters, places, concepts, etc) due to unknown reason. Let's say MySims Agents Wii. I heard there are some characters that possibly in the game but due some reason, they were scrapped from whole games. The ideas looks promising but EA made that franchises Half-Baked. Too bad, they neglected that franchise. I have no idea if EA also neglected The Sims 4.

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crimsontadpoles
Mon 19th Sep 2016

Online only would put me off that. I sometimes like to play my 3DS when I'm out and about, so requiring an Internet connection would be a big hassle for me.

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HappyMaskedGuy
Mon 19th Sep 2016

@Haiassai Perhaps- but the last EA title I bought was Grand Slam Tennis on the Wii.

Less games is not good, but less EA titles like this spawn of Satanic crap I will consider as a victory!

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SuperToe
Mon 19th Sep 2016

What a shame. This actually looked like a Sims I'd enjoy.

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Vineleaf
Mon 19th Sep 2016

Not a surprise. EA decided to target very young with many of their games on Nintendo platforms the last two generations. The two DS SimCity titles were almost unplayable from that. Giving us, say, SimCity 3000 or the original Sims on 3DS now would be amazing... if they could leave the games alone and not shoehorn in things like tapping on fireworks or annoying Isabelle-esque (redundant, I know) assistants.

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brandonbwii
Mon 19th Sep 2016

@HappyMaskedGuy What didn't you like about Grand Slam Tennis? I heard it was pretty good.

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SakuraHaruka
Tue 20th Sep 2016

I Miss too much the MySims series...
I hope someday to return it, but, oh well, I keep waiting...

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Freelance
Tue 20th Sep 2016

@Vineleaf That's why I hated it. Add to that very long save times and browny, drab colours. I wish we got an actual good SimCity game on a handheld. It would be awesome if SNES SimCity came to 3DS VC, despite how simple it is compared to today's SimCities.