EA announces some statistics coinciding with the the tenth anniversary of The Sims series of lifestyle simulations. They say: "the unstoppable, award-winning franchise has produced three core games – The Sims, The Sims 2, and The Sims 3 – supported by dozens of expansion and stuff packs with lifetime unit sales eclipsing 125 million worldwide." They also point out the service the series will offer in the far-flung future a century hence when historians will wonder why there were so many cooking fires and unfortunate bathroom accidents in our time: "If the games were buried in a time capsule, when unearthed in 100 years, The Sims would give future generations an instant understanding of how people lived between 2000 - 2010."