No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.