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

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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