Console players will finally have the chance to experience The Sims 3 on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii & DS.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that the critically-acclaimed The Sims™ 3 is in development for the PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™, and will be available this fall. Millions embraced the launch of The Sims 3 on the PC/Mac last summer making it the biggest PC launch in EA’s history and going on to become the #1 best-selling PC title in 2009*. The groundbreaking The Sims franchise has continued to gain momentum, remaining a worldwide cultural touchstone for its enormous and growing fan base.

“We’re bringing players the best console and handheld game for The Simsfranchise to date and are excited to offer a unique experience for all types of gamers on their platform of choice,” explained Sam Player, Executive Producer at EA. “Building on the unique traits system, living open neighborhood, lifetime wishes, and endless customization options, we’ve tailored each platform of The Sims 3 with exclusive features to allow for even more control, creativity, and connectivity.”

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This is probably why Sims 3 is so strangely coded and has so many bugs. As many of us speculated when Sims 3 was first leaked, it was always intended to be played on consoles...

R.I.P Sims franchise as we once knew it. Hello console-friendly, microtransactioned, DRM, bug-ridden Sims for dummies.

More information has become available:

The Sims 3 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

Create Sims with unique personalities, fulfil their desires, and control their lives within a living neighbourhood. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim “get lucky,” bless them with “instant beauty” or curse them with an “epic fail.” But use these powers wisely, because they may have unexpected results! Design and build your Sims’ dream home and share your creations with others. As you guide your Sims through life you can complete challenges to unlock additional items, town upgrades, and new buildings and landmarks. For the first time ever, upload and download content on XBLA and PSN, including furnishings, houses, player creations, and more!

FEATURES:
Create any Sim you can imagine – give them unique personalities! Fine-tune your Sims’ appearances and create millions of different personalities. Make them evil, romantic, paranoid, kleptomaniacs, or a mix of something completely different.

Build and Customise! – Build the ultimate home for your Sims, improve your town with building upgrades, and more.

Unlock all-new Karma Powers – Wield the ultimate control over your Sims, giving them wealth, beauty, and love—or take it all away with the click of a button.

Control your Sims’ destinies – Choose whether or not to fulfil your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true—or letting their dreams die. Will your Sims be rock stars, world leaders, or expert thieves? It’s up to you.

Build and share online! – Connect through XBLA and PSN to share your creations and download content from other players around the world.

Complete Challenges to earn rewards – Face short and long term challenges and reap rewards and trophies. Connect with Facebook and share your achievements with your friends.

The Sims 3 for Nintendo Wii

Create Sims with unique personalities, fulfil their desires, and control their lives within a living neighbourhood that you can customise, including designing the ultimate beach getaway. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim get lucky with the power of “love connector”, bless them with the power of “age defier” or curse them with an “alien abduction.” Use these powers wisely, because they may have unexpected results! As you guide your Sims through life, you can complete challenges to unlock additional items, new buildings and landmarks. For the first time ever, share the fun with a friend in the co-op buddy mode or take on up to three friends in the Life Moments Game.

FEATURES
Create any Sim you can imagine – give them unique personalities! Fine-tune your Sims’ appearances and personalities. Make them evil, romantic, paranoid, kleptomaniacs, or a mix of something completely different.

Control your Sims’ destinies – Choose whether or not to fulfil your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true—or letting their dreams die. Will your Sims be rock stars, world leaders, or expert thieves? It’s up to you.

Unlock all-new Karma Powers – wield the ultimate power over your Sims, controlling weather, the Grim Reaper and more!

Play The Sims with friends! – Get a friend in on the action in the all-new co-op mode. A second player can join the fun as a gnome who can help—or hinder—your Sims. You can also play the new Life Moments Game with up to four players. Bet on life’s most important moments to earn points and garner rewards.
New Content! Enjoy an all new beach town with new residents, traits, careers, weather, and lifetime wishes exclusive for the Wii.

The Sims 3 for Nintendo DS
For the first time ever, enjoy a complete life simulation experience on handheld! Create Sims with unique personalities, fulfil their desires, and control their lives within a living neighbourhood. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sims get lucky with the power of “rapid romance”, bless them with “instant beauty” or curse them with the “enemy inventor”. Use these powers wisely, because they may have unexpected results! As you guide your Sims through life you can complete opportunities to unlock additional items and town upgrades. Experience the ultimate handheld life simulator!

FEATURES
First Complete Life Sim on the NDS! – Create any Sim you can imagine and control their lives. Control multiple Sims within your family and enjoy life’s special moments as you interact with their world.

Create Sims and give them unique personalities! - Use your stylus to sculpt your Sims’ facial features. Choose their hair styles and clothing and dictate their personalities. Make them evil, romantic, paranoid, neurotic, or a mix of something completely different.

Control your Sims’ destinies - Choose whether or not to fulfil your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true—or letting their dreams die. Will your Sims be emperors of evil, world leaders, or expert thieves? It’s up to you.

Customise your Sims world! - For the first time ever on DS, build your Sims home with tools to draw walls and floors, and customise with décor objects, textures, and more.
Unlock all-new Karma Powers. Wield the ultimate control over your Sims giving them wealth, beauty, and love—or take it all away with the click of a button.

We’re delighted to be bringing you this news but stay tuned for more updates over the coming weeks.

::pukes a little in mouth::

For all the people who don't have high-end PC's, this is extremely good news.

I'M GETTING IT FOR PS3, AND IF THERE'S TROPHIES, THEY'RE ALL MINE, BITCHES. >:|

(reads description first time):excited:

(reads again)

I've got a wii and a DS, and well the games will be great in their own ways, I'm pretty sure you'll only get to control and save one family at a time, and the wii will be almost the same but different graphically. It would be near impossible to have a multi family save file in wii, I mean the hard drive is only 512MB

I hoped that The Sims 3 on console would come pre-packed with some cheap sims branded 2GB SD card, so that its saves wouldn't clog up what little hard drive space the wii and cheaper PS3's have. If would only cost them $3-4 extra per copy.

And what will EA do when the Nintendo 3DS comes out (potentially this fall).

AWESOME!! i thought it was coming out next year but watever, im good with this ... when i was on the snooty home page it thought it was new screens for ambitions, and i was really surprised how similar the graphics are to the pc game

Yay! Cheap programming!

pfffft. you wish. :I

The problem with "yay cheap programming" is that consoles have limitations PCs don't have. Specifically they have limitations on exactly the sorts of functions you would need to build an open-ended world tool, exactly like The Sims.

Porting Sims to console is virtually guaranteed to be the root cause of many past, current and future problems of the game, and limitations in playability, flexibility, scalability, and the ability to expand the game world in new ways.

I have been expecting a somewhat Q3 2010 release on consoles and handhelds for quite some time, and now its here.

As a huge fan of the console versions of The Sims Series i am left a little underwhelmed at the fact this game is looking very much like a port and not a new title. The console versions always boast great (and sometimes lackluster) story-lines along with the customization which is signature to the series, however this does not seem to be the case with this title.

For me without anything remotely new, such as a story mode, purchasing this game would be a sheer waste of time. So heres hoping that this title is just as good as previous console and handheld titles.

Bitch, please.

forgot..
[ sarcasm ] Yay! Cheap programming! [ / sarcasm ]

The Sims for PS2 was a great game. But EA have gone a different route this time and ported the same game to the PS3 & Xbox 360, and although this is good news for people who can't play the on PC's, it doesn't look like it will have a storymode.

The Wii will be downgraded and probably a town will many loading screens and probably a storymode.

The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 screenshots look identical to the PC screenshots, which must mean it's a direct port, so really the PC game on consoles, this is great for me because I don't have a high-end PC, but people that do won't gain much from buying it. You won't be able to download CC, mods, or make movies, but I don't do these things anyway, so I'm really happy EA have done this.

Erm, what? Save files on Wii and PS3/360 aren't generally that big, a couple of megabytes, if not that. They don't need an SD card to store save files, at all. The PS3's hard drive space is also big enough to store the exchange stuff people can download, not to mention people can upgrade their hard drives quite easily.

The only thing you should really be concerned about is whether or not the PS3 version of the game will have a mandatory install upon start-up. Generally those PS3 games that do require around 3-5GB, which is a lot if you're a 20GB PS3 owner that hasn't upgraded their hard drive just yet. I imagine the game will have one to store textures and things for Create-a-Style since the PS3's Blu-ray speed is quite slow. That is of course if that feature is included in the game. I imagine it is since the game has the Exchange, unless that's only for Sims and Lots.

Sweet!, I'm so getting it for PS3, Mainly, so my boyfriend can stop whining he can't play it because 'it's on your (my) computer'

One would think that without having to worry about people still running ten year old computers, they'd be able to make it look better.

Apparently not.

The wii has next to no space, I seem to recall the MySims save took up half my wii's hard-drive. The Sims 3 would probably need more.