German site 4Players posted a factsheet on The Sims 3 for Console and InfiniteSims was super-kind enough to translate it to English:

For a good ten years, the Sims on the PC are active. Well five years later, they introduced The Sims on console. And after The Sims 3 strike last year on PC and with “The Sims Medieval” has a fresh concept.

Successful model

Whopping ten years originally conceived by design legend Will Wright virtual personalities already in business. Millions sold, is the collection of expansions and console versions as well as a shelf filler blockbuster beyond compare and, according to EA, above all, enormously popular among female gamers. Rather, success is expected in a winking look at the real life, social interactions and consequences are. Driven by an unpredictable AI it is unlike any other game available on the market, and even after hours of intense Simming one experiences is always something new!

Fate of the consoles

A fresh element of the console version will be the forces of karma, to which the producer Sam Player, we had asked some questions. With these it will be possible to influence the fortunes of the Sims almost godlike. By letting a ball of fire in land in the area. Away from its efforts are being made to push the Sims experience possible for each console: The HD versions (Xbox and PS3) have an exchange, with which you can share the content created with other Sims fans and the Wii version gets a direct control over the characters and a separate multiplayer mini-game added.

Facts

  • Extensive Create-A-Sim Editor
  • House building
  • Optimized control
  • New on consoles: Karma forces
  • Technology adapted to the respective systems and optimized
  • Exchange of content on PSN and XBL
  • Exclusively on Wii: beach-town direct control Sims
  • Wii-city streamed seamlessly, PS3 and 360 with short load times between areas
  • Wii version with “Life Moments” multiplayer mode
  • Complete Sims sandbox on DS, including powerful editor
  • Typical Sims-Humor
  • Needs new life, careers, etc. (depending on the system)
  • Free roaming the city possible
  • Various system-specific content