The Sims 3 Release Date

[kathy]

Official Release Date info from Sims3.com
 
 
The Sims 3 in Stores February 20, 2009

Also Available February 20, 2009 The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition to Include an Iconic The Sims Plumbob USB Drive, Exclusive In-Game Content and More!

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced at the Leipzig Games Convention that The Sims™ 3, the highly anticipated next-generation flagship PC game from The Sims Label, will be available at retailers worldwide and available by digital download on February 20, 2009. The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. The feature-set includes a new seamless, open neighborhood, new Create-a-Sim, new unique personality traits, new unlimited customization and new gameplay that’s quick and rewarding.
The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition will also be in stores on February 20, 2009. The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition will include the full game along with additional collectable The Sims merchandise and a bonus in-game Italian-Style Sports Car unavailable elsewhere. A limited number of copies of The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition will be available worldwide, and those who pre-order the product from select retailers will receive an additional exclusive in-game vintage sports car and a collectible poster that is a first look at the neighborhood, all available while supplies last.
“I’m excited to get the next-generation flagship PC game from The Sims Label, The Sims 3, into player’s hands worldwide on February 20,” said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. “The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition, launching on the same day, will offer a very special Sims experience to our loyal players.”
The Sims 3 features a brand new engine that allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood where they can roam and explore all new surroundings including the beach, mountains and town center. The neighborhood is alive and constantly evolving so what happens to a Sim on one side of the neighborhood could impact your Sims on the other side of town! If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen? And now for the first time, your Sims have distinctive personalities thanks to a range of all-new personality traits. You have the option to select from dozens of personality traits such as brave, artistic, kleptomaniac, clumsy, paranoid and romantic. Combine up to five traits to create an endless number of truly diverse individuals.
The all-new Create-a-Sim allows you to completely customize your Sims’ appearances making every Sim unique. The feature is easy-to-use and more powerful than ever, letting you fine-tune every aspect of your Sims face, customize their hair color, select the exact shade of their skin tone and determine much more to make lifelike Sims. It’s never been easier to make Sims that are thin, full-figured or muscular and everything in between! In true The Sims fashion, you can customize everything. The Sims 3 allows for infinite possibilities to design the interior and exterior of your Sims surroundings.
Additionally, you can enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards! Based on personality traits, skills and career choices, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges, things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards or not! Will your Sim skyrocket from latrine cleaner to an astronaut, go from being a rabid fan to a sports legend or will you choose an alternate destiny? In The Sims 3, life is what you make it!
The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition will include:

The Sims 3 Game for PC

The Sims Plumbob USB Drive with matching Green Carabiner

Exclusive In-Game Italian-Style Sports Car

Tips and hints guide

• The Sims 3 Plumbob Stickers

For more information about The Sims 3, please go to www.TheSims3.com.

[maniac19642003]

The new release date for The Sims 3 is June 2. This was posted at the official Sims 3 site here: http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/newsItem.jsp?item=1183392783
To 'celebrate' this news, EA released 3 new screen shots, a new movie and the box shot. Check the movie here: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/45068.html?r=1&type=wmv

[Ali]

Changed their minds again unfortunately, new date is now June 5

*sigh*

[simpleprincess]

AGAIN? oh my well at least its just a few days difference.

[maniac19642003]

Changed their minds again unfortunately, new date is now June 5

*sigh*

The Sims 3 won't be released worldwide on June 2nd. That date is only for America and Canada. Europe and other countries get it a few days later:

June 4th: Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Australia.

June 5th: Uk, Italy, Brazil, Poland, Russia, Czech.

[maniac19642003]

Reason of delay
Some wonder why the Sims 3 was delayed. Most think it is for fixing bugs, but in a Gamespot article, EA made clear that this extra time is used to market the game better. They see The Sims 3 as one of the most important launches in their company's history.
Read the article here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3/news.html?sid=6204057&mode=news

[Ali]

Reason of delay
Some wonder why the Sims 3 was delayed. Most think it is for fixing bugs, but in a Gamespot article, EA made clear that this extra time is used to market the game better. They see The Sims 3 as one of the most important launches in their company's history.
Read the article here: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3/news.html?sid=6204057&mode=news

well they damn well better release it without all the chuffing bugs in it then - perhaps if it's so damn important they may actually make an effort this time?

but then ....... this is EA we're talking about :S

[closer]

im really upset about this i was countindown and everythin then i heard this and i just crnt believe it i could of understood 1 month but not four its unfair if they had to do awarness for it why not tell us june in the 1st place

[Charley]

Hey, I have pre-ordered it off Amazon UK and they are still saying that it is going to be dispatched in 2 weeks... what goes on?

Char
xxx

[SimGirl20]

Ew look how fake and cartoonish those screenshots look? It's sad that the only screenie that looks somewhat realistic is the sim in the purple go-go boots if the game looks like that when I get it it will be going right back to the store for a refund! that is just sickingly dissapointing if the sims look like that, I mean look at the child in the rainboots [WTF?] They look sims from TS1!

[Kaythrin]

Yeah you are totally right, i thought the same thing. EA is tryin to make the sims 3 looks so realistic that it looks cartoonish - almost fake. It's a dissapointment. and i am happy with the sims 2 anyways, despite the new things ea is adding to the sims 3 sims 2 is perfectly fine and the graphics are way better. whats the point in fixing something that doesnt need to be fixed? I dont want sims 3..LOL

[shellyk]

I got an e-mail from Amazon UK last night to tell me that the launch had been delayed to June i got so p!ssed off that I cancelled my order.  Now I'm calmer I'm going to have to re-pre-order the thing.  I was getting really excited the closer it got (I don't really know why :-D) and now I'm just ho-hum again. 

[Ali]

Hey, I have pre-ordered it off Amazon UK and they are still saying that it is going to be dispatched in 2 weeks... what goes on?

Char
xxx

play.com have changed it now to 5th June, but it still has the prima guide as being released on 20th Feb - if that is the case then I guess we can safely say that the extra months delay isn't for adding new content!

[simpleprincess]

Im just astonished that EA with all those creators couldnt have made up sims that look better than that.I hope sales will be considerably down when It comes out, show our dissatisfaction.lol.

[SimGirl20]

In my opinion and this could be just me talking blah blah blah but I think honestly with the economy in such shambles that EA thinks that there not going to be able to make there quota for this fiscal year releasing the game in Feb, I mean it's like this half the damn country is out of job and it doesn't seem like to me that the president is doing anything to help the crumbling economy like he 'said' he would, and selling crap like there showing in those screenshots do you really think people is going to shell out 40-50$ for a game that looks WORSE than its precessor?