
If not having visited a menu recently, all one needs to do is tap down on the 元 button and a controller map screen will pop-up for whatever activity is at hand. The Sims 4 has scaled everything down too easy to use controller mapping based on what the player is doing. Mapping a controller when bringing a PC game to consoles is always tricky, what with the limited button set available. The best news is The Sims 4 maintains everything fans will love from the PC version, while simplifying the controls of navigating the many menus on console. This is, however, one small part of what makes up The Sims 4 and there is plenty to look forward too. While there’s no news yet if mods will make it to this console edition, seeing games like Fallout 4and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim bring mods over signals to other games that this might be something worth doing. This is a huge problem for the console edition as it means all the fantastic content that can come out of mods won’t be put in the hands of The Sims 4 players looking to pick it up in its new iteration.

While all this sharing capability carries over to The Sims 4 on console, it is still missing a key feature that players might not be happy with, even if it’s a feature technically outside of the game. With each iteration of The Sims, players have been able to share such content in more creative ways. The term social experience isn’t thrown around just for the sake of it a big part of The Sims has always been the sharing of content, creations and achievements within a thriving community of avid players. Hopefully they don’t set the tilapia on fire while cooking for their hot-date. What makes for such a fantastic social experience? Well, that’s a big answer, but luckily one that can be answered with the joy of a Sim just having kissed their new crush. The Sims has been capturing the hearts of game enthusiast since the beginning of the aughts and it’s better than ever four iterations later. With the arrival of The Sims 4 on consoles, now even more Sims will be asking that question as they get ready to start their brand new (maybe not that new) lives.

One simple question: what kind of life do you want to live? No, it’s not the universal question for the existential dread that can come with living actual life, but it is the driving force behind every Sim that has ever come into existence.
