Please check out the in-game footage of inZOI, a life simulation game where players become gods within the game, allowing them to change everything as they wish and experience endless new stories in various forms of life. (*This video is from the development stage.)
You can try out inZOI firsthand ...
Cities skylines came for SimCity several years ago, the Sims is kind of a sitting duck at this point lol. A lot of the other competing entries are still in development however, and some have been for years... so it could really go either way
Seems like they're missing the absolutely very important point that the target audience for The Sims doesn't have NASA quantum computers to play their games. Sure it looks beautiful, but 99% of your audience won't be able to play it unless you have Carmack himself doing arcane computer wizardry to make it run on a toaster.
Did we watch the same video? Other than the pre-rendered opening, I didn't find it to be mind-blowing in the graphics department. It looks good, sure, but not so good that an average gaming PC wouldn't be able to run it.
That's precisely my point. The vast majority of Sims players don't have gaming PCs, hell the majority of them don't even play any games besides The Sims. They're primarily playing these games on crappy work laptops, most of them without any discrete GPU in fact.
One thing I always liked about The Sims was it being a satire on life. Especially the first one. I don't think this game is interested in going that direction... Everything is very Korean. Spotless and clean and sterile.