Unfortunately 99.99% of the market wouldn't be able to play a naval sim without getting board and flinging the disk. A true naval sim isn't a Playstation/Xbox360 game. The vast majority of gamers that are out there now are action gamers who don't like to think about anything aside from pushing a button to shoot anything that moves. They're attention deficite dissordered when it comes to video games.
If you want more proof of that, just read the reviews of Dangerous Waters in most Video Game magazines and video game review shows. Every review (at least the ones that I've seen.. and there have been a lot of them) balks at the size of the manual and yawns at the idea of driving around the ocean looking at nothing (Totally missing the point of the excitement of tracking and stealthingand well... the entire point of the game).
The truth is.. almost no one out there wants to spend any time at all learning a hardcore sim. Look at the games that are out now. Do you even NEED a manual to learn 99% of them ? No !
A true naval sim would require a lot of time spent actually learning stuff. Learning something is work (What ? I have to READ something ?) so most people are going to be bored to death even before they play or they'll try to play it without reading the manual and think the game stinks because they sailed around looking at nothing for endless hours or were killed in five secconds.
Our braindead society who are being raised to not like thinking is not ready for this kind of sim. They'd rather play Grand Theft Auto 18.
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