Available in 60 countries and translated into 22 languages,Los Sims,Will Wright’s masterpiece forElectronic Artsand champion of the so-called“social simulators”, has just turned 10 years of success. The video game continues to be a cultural phenomenon worldwide as the fan community continues to grow and provide more content.
Go Simshit stores on February 4, 2000. It was the culmination of Wright’s idea of putting the construction and management of a world in the hands of the players, which began withSimCityin 1989. The franchise has seen the birth of two new deliveries,Los Sims 2YGo Sims 3, supported by dozens of expansions and accessory packs.
Nowadays,Electronic Artshas soldmore than 125 million copies worldwideand it has managed to position it as the best-selling game in almost every market in the world. But perhaps his greatest achievement is not so much the number as the profile of the players, sinceGo Simsit became the first video game to be used massively by women, long before the Wii and Nintendo DS revolutions.
Moreover, the video game saga allows gamers to crear, download and share content through the web. And it has managed to penetrate thenew social networks(Facebook, MySpace, Twitter), video sharing websites(YouTube) and mobile platforms. For example, applications foriPhone e iPod touchfromGo Sims 3they were the most downloaded from the App Store in 2009 and reached the top position in paid applications in almost 40 countries in the same year. And the channelGo Sims 3YouTube is the second most subscriber sponsored channel of all time, with over 55,000 subscribers and some 26 million views.
In this first decade of life,Go Simsit has also won the hearts of artists. The Black Eyed Peas, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry, Natasha Bedingfield or Depeche Mode have recorded some of their songs inSimlish, the official language of the Sims. In our country, Andy and Lucas, La Oreja de van Gogh, Michelle Jenner and Natalia Verbeke have become sims.
