The Sims Celebrates a Decade

It’s staggering information: The Sims is 10 years old.

Rightly so, Electronic Arts is trumpeting this milestone with a press release as long as your arm. Here are a few highlights from that very release:

The original The Sims debut on February 4, 2000.

The franchise has generated more than $2.5B of revenue, putting it in the same class as blockbuster films Avatar, Titanic, and The Matrix Trilogy.

Available in 60 countries and 22 languages.

If the games were buried in a time capsule, when unearthed in 100 years, The Sims would give future generations an instant understanding of how people lived between 2000 – 2010.

Not included in the press release is that there have been at least 17 expansion pack s, not including the many “Stuff Packs” and multiple spin-offs like the MySims franchise. And there’s no end in sight.

Read our review of The Sims 3.

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