Update []: It's official — The Sims and The Sims 2 have been rereleased today on Steam, EGS, and the EA App. But a console release is off the cards for now, it seems.
You can grab The Sims Legacy Collection, The Sims 2 Legacy Collection, or The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle (for a discounted price) right now on PC, and only PC. So, as many of you suspected in the comments, it seems like both of these will be exclusive to PC for now.
That's a bit of a shame, given that these are iconic titles for many people here at Nintendo Life and across the industry. But getting these games to work on consoles might take a bit of work. So we're not too surprised.
Hey, the Switch 2 and its supposed mouse controller may well pave the way for a port in the future, but for now, you'll have to settle for sitting at your desktop — or making your way through on Steam Deck and using the trackpads...
We'll have to settle for MySims Cozy Bundle for now!
Original Story: The first two Sims games are still exceedingly well-regarded these days, but sadly, actually gaining access to them in a legitimate way isn't particularly easy. The first was a disc-only jobby, and the second has long-since been removed from digital platforms.
Thankfully, with a new report from Kotaku (thanks, Push Square) accompanying an intriguing tease from EA itself, it looks like The Sims and The Sims 2 will be re-released on PC very soon. The catch? Well, according to Kotaku's sources, it seems as though a console release is still "unclear" at the time of writing.
Of course, we're thrilled that these games will once again be easily accessible for PC users (presuming the reports are correct, of course), but we'd also love to see them on the Switch.
Better yet, let's hold off until the Switch 2 and make use of the console's heavily-rumoured mouse functionality in its Joy-Con controllers. That would no doubt make the games an absolute joy to play.
Whatever happens, we'll keep an eye on the news over the coming days and will let you know if these games are indeed confirmed for the Switch or Switch 2.
Would you like to see the first two Sims games on the Switch or Switch 2? Let us know with a comment down below.
[source kotaku.com, via pushsquare.com]
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The Sims 1 & 2 Remastered from PC version better on Switch 2 and PS5, in physical release.
DAY ONE purchase for both Switch 2 & PS5 version.
Will only buy it, if it comes to switch 2.
And I guess they‘ll sell every add-on as DLC again.
Honestly, I would probably just get Sims 1 on Steam anyway. Sims has never really felt like a console game to me.
Though Sims 1 with touch support sounds nice.. if it comes with all the add on content, and not much more for a lot more (like, have you seen the price for a full Sims 4 experience???), I might bite on Switch (2), if it comes to the big N.
Can’t wait to once more hear “This grau is frenché and teh uberdesnah!” and “I’m sorry Nikkeh!”
Or whatever they’re meant to be 😂
Glad that the first two The Sims games are coming back at all, but man would I love to see them also on Switch and/or Switch 2!
I cannot trust this. EA is known for making everything require online, and this remake would fit well under that system.
Will definitely grab the original on PC just for the nostalgia.
What about sims 3 and spin offs
Never played The Sims 1, and I bounced off 3 and 4 almost immediately when I tried them out, but whoa, I was INCREDIBLY addicted to The Sims 2. I would buy it for the Switch 2 (or PS5 even) in a heartbeat!
This is it people, the world is healing and the universe is once again filled with glory and light. The Sims 1 and 2 are absolute essentials for anyone. I am so excited for this!
Bustin Out. Please. Bustin Out!
@Paraka Yuk. Had not thought of that...
Maybe as one and two were not designed that way, it may be more effort than it is worth to make it online in the same fashion like a modern game...but I guess depends how much they want to invest in this.
I’ve been wanting to play the original game again for a while now
@Mana_Knight - If it gives EA a smidgeon of more control, they'll do it. There is outliers, like MySims, but they are not often to bank on.
I ain't even messing around. I had a dream two nights ago that I was buying physical switch games, I was most excited to bring home Sims 1 and 2 with all expansions for Switch. If it comes to the console, they will LITERALLY be making my dream come true.
We we are getting a mouse like feature on the joycons so...
Hopefully it's everything in one package, base game and DLC.
Sims 2 and 3 would be nice. The original Sims is just too archaic for me.
Who asked for this? Who I ask??
The Sims and "25th anniversary" together in the same sentence remind me of my mortality! I'd like to revisit the original game because it's such a tender piece of history to me, but I'll wait and see.
I think games like this are better on the PC due to content creation / content sharing. Consoles lack the ability to create content in the way you can with a PC, so these kind of games can become very limiting.
Perhaps one day Nintendo could have a desktop editor for games such as this or Animal Crossing to edit clothing / objects that can then be placed into the game via SD card or an online service.
Why not just make a Sims 5 since Sims 4 just came out 8 years ago? These are the kind of game that if you play one then you basically play all of em.
Ok I guess it isn’t NintendoLife policy now after all. Yeah I’m boycotting ALL sites that still link to x and and I won’t be the only one, just saying.
Do you care about us?
@Chlocean now I just want to ask what other dreams have you had lately? Will our switch/switch 2 get a simpsons hit and run remaster, timesplitters, wind waker/twilight princess remaster, will Fzero ride again???
I brought this up in another recent article, but I’ll request it again — can you please consider not linking to the website of a Nazi sympathizer? Honestly it seems strange to have to ask.
Back in the day everyone played Sims the same way:
1.) Build your real life house/apartment in the game.
2.) Intentionally kill your Sims in your house/apartment.
Maybe a Mac OS version?
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@dartmonkey Thank you for clarifying that and for showing that you care.
@TYRANACLES I'm not certain but I had a dream where we had to platform everywhere like in Tomb Raider so be on the lookout for some office spaces with strange geometry 😉
@VHSGREMLIN Well a lot of people have been unhappy that TS1 and TS2 are unavailable unless you own them previously. The Sims 2 Ultimate was given away years ago but then vanished, so anyone new who wants to play it can't do so.
Plus, those two games have issues running on modern OSs that require mods to get them working properly, so versions optimized for modern OSs would be amazing.
I'd loved The Sims 1 back in the day, Makin Magic is my favorite. I can't wait to play it again, finally!!
@dartmonkey Thank you very much.
I still play sims 2/3/4 on my legacy gaming PC (building a new one next year for modern games) so this isn’t for me but would like to see the urbz come back.
@olliemar28 I already found dartmonkey’s comment about this so I’m all good for now.
Thanks for your efforts!
@PinderSchloss Awesome! Sorry I missed this; I'm not able to keep an eye on comments as much as I'd like.
I loved The Sims 1+2 back in the day. Very chilled vibes. It was fun to live forever in 2. Definitely worth a replay. Hope you have a good time and be nice to your Sims.
Edit: What a creepy trailer. Quite off putting.
Namablah-da-sama-da!
That is what I think a Sim would say to the bad news that it is not coming to Switch.
I mean it's not entirely true the Switch got My Sims and few months ago.
Given what seems to be a lazy PC relaunch ports, I doubt we will see console versions anytime soon
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Yeah I'm figuring they're only gonna be on Steam, but that's okay. I picked them up there. Thanks for the heads up!
Must be a slow news day for this to even be news on a Nintendo site. These are nothing but zero effort rereleases of old PC games with virtually no work put into them, and The Sims 2 is even missing an expansion. Who exactly was expecting that these would have shown up on consoles?! How exactly would one even play this on any console other than Switch in handheld mode?
I would have bought The Sims 2 in a heartbeat, IKEA or no IKEA, if it was available via GOG, but until then, I might have to consider my options as I haven't been able to get the game running successfully on Windows 10.
I've never had issues running The Sims 1 though, so I don't get what all the hubbub was about regarding that.
The least EA could have done was replace the low quality MP3 audio with lossless WAV, but doing less than the bare minimum has always been their MO.
If EA ever ports the Sims console games, however, then they simply must include the handheld games too. The Sims: Bustin' Out on GBA is easily one of my favourite games of all time and deserves so much more love than it ever got (it wasn't even released in Australia!). It's such a shame that the handheld subseries was treated as a cynical cashgrab by EA and that the quality of the games TANKED after just a few instalments.
Would I be laughed out of this comment thread if I said that I played sims freeplay and enjoyed the heck out of it?
That was a fantastic ad though.
Origin account wall, pass.
Happy with the old disks.
Nice to have them supported/the content there, and fans have modded Sims 2&3 so much these days. Sims 5 cancelled so......
Hmm.
Console would they even bother though? Console games for the series were particularly missions or story driven, others were movement or cursor and flip flopped constantly.
My Sims I can see why they were console in mind besides PC. But primarily for Nintendo audiences anyway.
Sim Animals as well.
Sims 2 era was better for console controls, 1, 3 and 4 are all cursor and it's eh.
Songs were Sim language so it worked regardless just licenses still even if no voice likeness I guess? Besides those that sing in Sims language. Either way.
But yeah ports is a hard sell, accessible yes, good ports I doubt it. Windows compatibility mode varies and even then just get a virtual machine or low end enough parts or decent parts and make a Windows 98 or XP to 7 or 8 machine if know how. I still have my disks. Otherwise just a Windows ISO in virtual machine is easy and whatever of the games files and disk or USB support from there into the VM.
People use DOS box so even then.
They need a combination of character movement and cursor modes but refuse to.
I never figured out how I play those sims games... seems I can't do anything?!
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