Bah humbug! I find myself in agreement with Kapitan_Phillips. SH5 will be a total rewrite of the game system, fixing and introducing many features and losing many great things that we have working well now. The revolutionary method of making simulations, because brand new releases are the only way the game company makes money, is just not appropriate for a simulation, which has to evolve in order to continually be fixing the defects, introducing new features and eliminating the defects.
Throwing out all the good work done so far is just a foolish way to do business. Losing your dev team between games and starting fresh with people who don't understand the system and break everything (think SH4), is stupid. Requiring a whole new, built from the ground up, simulator every two years is wasteful, too expensive, doesn't produce an income stream to fix problems, throws developers away just when they could be building something great and greatly profitable, and abuses simulation players, who are really pining for something truly excellent.
Releasing SH5 will do nothing to produce the excellence we crave. Only a revamping of the way game companies make money from simulations will do the trick. It would increase game company profits, give us an excellent and evolving game, fix multiplayer issues, make updating simple, and eliminate global warming and war forever!
In the meantime, I suppose I'll take whatever this clueless company makes, which are merely the best sub simulators that presently exist. They are just a pale parody of what is possible.