The most anticipated game of 2014 is likely to be released a little later than expected. Electronic Arts, probably the most famous video game manufacturer in the world, announced that Sims 4 release date will be in 2014. Everyone expected that they were referring to the first months of the next year. Sadly, the latest press release from Electronic Arts gives us the bad news: Sims 4 will be released in 2014 but not during next year’s spring. Instead, the game will arrive in October 2014.

13 years have passed since the first game of the series was released. And, according to the statistics released by the World Association of Video Games, the Sims is one of the most important franchises in the video gaming history. Until now, more than 150 million copies of the first three games of the series were sold worldwide. And the huge community of fans is expecting impatiently the date Sims 4 will be released.

While Sims 3 users were not able to play the game without having a proper internet connection, EA and Maxis will solve this problem in their next installment, the Sims 4. The future title will let users play the game without being connected to the internet at the same time. Otherwise, the module remains largely the same, each player being able to shape a character and a world of his own.

We also expect many improvements in game’s graphics and gameplay. A series of modules will be implemented in order to enhance the continuity of the game and to deepen the relationships between Sims, their feelings and the in-game society.

According to the press release provided by Electronic Arts, The Sims 4 will be released in October 2014 and will include two versions, one for PC and one for Mac. If you want to also receive The Sims 4 Limited Edition package, you can pre-order Sims 4 on the official site.

Sims 4 will be playable on low-end computers

Sims 4 release date will be next year but this doesn’t mean you should pack your old PC and send it to the basement. If you are worried about the system requirements of the game, you should know that Sims 4 will not require some sci-fi computer on order to run smoothly. Instead, Maxis developers reassured us that the old computers that were able to run Sims 3 will be able to run Sims 4 also. As you can see, the minimum system requirements are as low as possible for a 2014 game: Pentium IV 2.0 GHz or Athlon XP 2000+ processor, 1GB of RAM memory and a 128MB RAM GPU.