{"id":116082,"date":"2020-07-30T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/367328"},"modified":"2020-07-30T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:30:00","slug":"the-sims-4-passes-30-million-lifetime-players-doubles-q1-net-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/30\/the-sims-4-passes-30-million-lifetime-players-doubles-q1-net-bookings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sims 4 passes 30 million lifetime players, doubles Q1 net bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong><em>The Sims 4<\/em> has officially surpassed 30 million players across all platforms, a milestone that comes as the game exits its highest quarter in terms of daily, weekly, and monthly active users to date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For reference, that includes players that have given the life management game a go since its PC launch in 2014, and also includes those that have played on PS4 or Xbox One since it launched on consoles in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>EA shared those tidbits about the game in its recently <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/367328\/The_Sims_4_passes_30_million_lifetime_players_doubles_Q1_net_bookings.php\">quarterly reporting<\/a>, naming it&nbsp;alongside <em>FIFA<\/em>, <em>Madden<\/em>, and <em>Apex Legends <\/em>as games that saw particular gains during the quarter ending June 30, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though a specific number wasn\u2019t offered in EA\u2019s earnings report or its quarterly investor call, EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen also announced <em>The Sims 4 <\/em>has more than doubled its net bookings year-over-year, noting that the game&#8217;s net bookings are up 110 percent year-over-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: The Sims 4 has officially surpassed 30 million players across all platforms, a milestone that comes as the game exits its highest quarter in terms of daily, weekly, and monthly active users to date.&nbsp; For reference, that includes players that have given the life management game a go since its PC launch in 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}