The Sims 3 Coming to the DS

In a recent interview wit Gamasutra, Robi Kauker talked about transitition PC sound effects to other consoles, and talked mainly about The Sims 3 and the DS.

I just finished a DS game where I had 512K for audio and I had to get music in that too. The same ambience system that I was doing in The Sims 3 title, the same concept of the ambience system, was done on the DS level.

And in The Sims 3 world, it might be a two-second, three-second, four-second bird call or bird song to build the ambience. In the DS, it's a tenth of a second and I have to create the birdcall through programmatic, data-driven stuff, not just preset samples. In the certain way, the DS titles are probably going to have more interesting ambience -- at least for the geeky.

This pretty much confirms that The Sims 3 will be on Nintendo's portable system, adding to our current consoles of the iPhone, and PC. No news yet on the long rumored PS3 version, but we will keep you up to date!

View the full interview here

Poll Results: SimAnimals

So last week we asked you if you planned on purchasing Sim Animals after its release, and apparently there isn't a whole lot if interest in the Wii and DS Title. You can view the results below. This Week we ask you if you think there will be another Sims 2 Stuff Pack. Voting will close on next Monday like usual!

Results:
Probably Not: 1 Vote (33%)
No Way!: 2 Votes (66%)

MySims Party Boxart

EA has released the new Boxart for MySims Party. While i am fairly impressed with it, it feels like EA is really going to start expanding upon the MySims franchise (as you will see in posts hitting later today). Anyway you can check out the Wii and DS Boxcovers below, MySims ships in early 2009.

Poll Results: Consoles

So last week we asked you; "Which Consoles do you own?" Your response?:

-Xbox 360 - 4 Votes (57%)
- PS3 - 0 Votes (0%)
-Wii - 5 Votes (71%)
-DS or DS Lite - 4 Votes (57%)
-PSP - 3 Votes (42%)
-PS2 - 3 Votes (42%)
- Older Console - 5 Votes (71%)
- Just a PC - 1 Vote (14%)

I know the numbers don't add up to 100%, we allowed you to vote multiple times, and we had 7 users vote so 5/7 users who voted own a Wii.

This week's question is: "What level of graphics can you play TS2 on?"

Voting closes Monday!

New Sim Animals Screenshot

To the left you see a new Sim Animals screenshot released by EA. Personally i think they should have went with a more cartoony look seeing as how the "realistic" approach they are taking towards the graphics makes it look really... well poor in my personal opinion. The game releases for Wii and DS in January!

Poll Results: Expansions?

Sorry i know i'm late on this one, ive been really busy lately, and in the time ive had free ive been playing Left 4 Dead (An amazing game for 360 and PC). Anyway here are last weeks Poll Results.

We asked you: Which expansion should first be remade for The Sims 3?
Your Responce? 3 Votes (50%) went to Seasons with Makin Magic Ending up with 2 Votes (or 33%) and Apartment Life finishing with 1 vote (16%) Thanks to all who voted!

This weeks Poll Question: Do you own another gaming console?

Trailer Day Playlist

If you would like to see more MySims trailers, or even if not, we have come up with a youtube playlist and player of 6 of the MySims trailers.  MySims Kingdom, PC and the first MySims are included in the mix.  Check it out Below!

MySims Kingom TV Advertisement

As part of trailer day we present you with the new TV ad for MySims Kingdom!  The Wii game shipped on tuesday and is available worldwide for the Wii and DS.  Check out the Ad below.

IGN Reviews The Sims 2 Apartment Pets

The Reviews for the Sims 2 Apartment Pets for the DS so far have been poor. IGN puts the icing on the cake with their review

The Sims 2: Apartment Pets' charm wears off very quickly. There are plenty
of other pet vet/pet spa games on the DS, and "The Sims" thing was what this
title had going for it. Unfortunately all Sims related elements are so toned
down that they may as well not be in there. The game is embarrassingly
shallow for something that has "The Sims" in the title.

Apartment Pets has a Metascore of 47 currently, which is simply poor.
Read the full Review over at IGN.com
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