
It’s a massive amount of fun to lead your Sims to success, following a branch of careers that you can cater for. You can even build houses, parks and other structures till your heart is content, with nearly no limits bar the confines of your own imagination. You’ll be able to start a family and dictate how their lives play out.

The Sims 4 allows you to create life and look after it in a wide range of different ways. If however you’re new to the series or haven’t picked up The Sims 4 on PC as of now but spend more time on your console, you’re not going to be disappointed if you choose to invest on these platforms. In essence, if you have a capable PC then I would certainly advise sticking with that version. There’s much more content on the PC version than there is here, and it will be a long while yet before we catch up, but there’s still plenty of content in this base version to get to grips with, with DLC set to be added in due course later down the line. That’s not to say that The Sims 4 on console is inline with The Sims 4 on PC, far from it. Fast forward a handful of years and here we sit with the console counterpart, and for the most part we have no delay to contend with regarding the aforementioned content. It’s no secret that The Sims 4 suffered a somewhat questionable launch on the PC a number of years back, simply due to the lack of features such as toddlers, pools, and so on and so forth. The Sims 4 is a solid experience nevertheless, but it’s undoubtedly better and more accessible on the PC. It’s to no fault of Maxis that this isn’t in place, and hopefully when support does eventually arrive devs will add the support in a post launch patch, but for now we have to deal with the controller-only. The argument that online play will be unbalanced is notable, but for games (such as The Sims 4) that are offline experiences, there’s no defending the lack of support.


In fact many games that are ported from the PC to console have this as a forefront criticism, which is why I frankly find it bonkers that Microsoft haven’t implemented keyboard and mouse support for the Xbox One sooner. Much like games such as Divinity Original Sin, you just cant beat mouse and keyboard. Let us address the elephant in the room immediately, The Sims 4 is better suited on the PC.
