"It's not a port," The Sims 3 console Producer Sam Player answers during an early look at the various console games. "You can't port a PC game to consoles and have it work the same."

Instead, Player explains that while they ported the technology and graphics to the various consoles, they adapted the gameplay experience of Sims 3 to play to the strengths of the different platforms. For example, he says that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of The Sims 3 "play to the deviant side" of players as well as Achievement/Trophy-oriented gamers. The town the Sims inhabit levels up as the player accomplishes more objectives in the game. Say you succeed in making out with three different Sims in the same day -- the town hospital will evolve from a local clinic into a larger structure with different architecture. The game also offers the quest-like Opportunities found in the PC version, but completing these on the PS3 or the Xbox 360 nets you not only an Achievement or a Trophy but also something called "Karma Points."

Are you impressed with The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff?
 - Yeah- it's pretty good for a stuff pack!
   - 3 (23%)
 - Eh, it's ok...could use more objects.
   - 6 (46%)
 - No! I expected a lot more!
   - 4 (30%)

FEATURES
 - For the first time ever, you control your Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job.
 - Be a hero or mess with the neighbors as a firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost hunter, and more!
 - Choose how your Sim’s career progresses—will they work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors, rise to success as a mogul, or shirk responsibility as a slacker?
 - Your Sim’s on-the-job choices now change their town and affect other Sims as well. Modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.
 - Enjoy all-new skills and activities! Master the arts of inventing, sculpting, and tattooing, and use your skills to earn Simoleons.