Following the news of EA’s splitting up, there was some discussion at SIMphoni about where the development of Simcity Societies would take place. The general consensus was that it would probably fall under the EA Games division. News is now emerging that the game will actually be developed by EA Sims:

The first of the “labels”, The Sims, will be led by president Nancy Smith. EA says the company “created the model on which the new organization is built.” The forthcoming games MySims, for Wii and DS, SimCity Societies, The Sims Castaway Stories and more will fall under this label.” [source]

This seems to be in line with the image that Simcity Societies screens, along with the concept of the game appear to be more Sims-esque than reminiscent of the Simcity days of old.