First confirmation The Sims 5 isn’t being developed.

Since the disastrous launch of the Sims 4, the closing of Maxis Emeryville, and the reorganization of the studio lumping Maxis in with the mobile division has left many fans wondering if The Sims 4 was the last iteration of the series for the PC.



In the wake of the latest round of layoffs - u/fashionPolice2001 - a user claiming to be a former guru confirms work on The Sims 5 never began:

We usually started the next iteration immediately after shipping the basegame, but when we finished TS4 this never happened. Still today there has been no work started on TS5.



He [Daniel Hiatt] didn’t leave, he got laid off, along with a slew of other Sims 4 developers. It’s the beginning of the end for the studio for sure. Sims Mobile is a total failure, there is no development on Sims 5 and the creative leadership are no longer around. They will try to pump out as many mediocre packs for Sims 4 as long as they can and will eventually close down the entire studio.

Yes, they are making money, but the question is how much vs how much developing it would cost. Also, they don’t have any of the core creative leadership left who could come up with a great concept for Sims 5. After Will Wright it’s been mostly rehashed ideas, so what would you expect from a Sims 5? Won’t happen.



Source: Thanks Rudy

Update 4-23-2018



Another person claiming to be a former employee - SilverArrow20XX from ResetEra - comments on The Sims 4 layoffs and shift to mobile:



Been expecting this since Sims 4 released. I did QA for Sims 3 and 4 for a few years. We kept supporting Sims 3 in full force for its entire lifetime up until the release push for Sims 4. As soon as 4 released though, they moved us all to different projects (mostly mobile) and it only had a small skeleton team.



Source: Thanks Dorsal Axe



Filed under rumor and speculation for now.

