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Alleged Sims 4 sales leak reveals best-selling expansion packs and Sims 3 totals

An alleged leak puts Cats and Dogs at 17 million copies and Seasons at 15 million, sketching which Sims 4 packs may have the longest tail.

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A leaked sales list, if the numbers are even roughly in the right range, points to a familiar Sims truth: the packs that reshape everyday play appear to have the deepest staying power. The alleged figures put The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs at 17 million units, Seasons at 15 million, Cottage Living at 14.5 million, City Living at 13 million, and Get Together at 6.5 million, a spread that reads like a map of what players keep coming back to after the first weekend rush.

The numbers were framed as an incomplete dump from a Sims insider posting on ATRL, with the data said to run mostly through March 2025 and roughly a year and two months of later figures missing. That matters because these totals are not presented as audited accounting, but as a rumor set that has to be read with caution. Even so, the pattern is suggestive. Broad systems packs and lifestyle anchors, especially Seasons and Cats and Dogs, look like the kind of purchases that keep shaping saves long after a new world has lost its novelty.

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The same leak also attached a figure to The Sims 4 Star Wars Game Pack, which reportedly reached 2.1 million units by March 2025. On the Sims 3 side, the claimed totals were more modest but still revealing: World Adventures at 2.1 million, Late Night at 1.4 million, and Into the Future at 300,000. If the ranking is directionally true, it reinforces a long-running fan split between packs that add a permanent layer to a legacy save and packs that players revisit for a burst of theme-driven fun.

The reason this kind of number set lands so hard is that Electronic Arts has spent years describing The Sims as a giant, still-growing business. EA said in February 2025 that the franchise had more than 500 million lifetime players. In October 2023, EA said The Sims 4 had become the most widely played game in the 23-year history of the franchise, with more than 70 million players worldwide and more than 16 million new players after it went free-to-play. That free-to-play shift began on October 18, 2022 on PC, Mac, Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, with EA saying it would keep developing packs and other content.

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Put beside earlier franchise markers, including EA-related reporting that put The Sims at more than 125 million copies sold and more than $2.5 billion in revenue, the leak reads less like trivia and more like a reminder of how much weight pack sales carry inside this series. For Maxis and Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California, the real story is not just which pack sold best, but which kinds of packs keep a save file alive for years.

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