i think ubi is barking up the wrong tree here, the reason they dont have sales to the casual gamers is casual gamers want fps fast action with lots of things going on and a subsim by its very definition is a dramatic slow pased strategy game so your not going to sell an underwater chess game to a bunch of playstation shooter geeks, its just never going to happen.
i see sh5 as a "possible" major flop that could and very likely "will" put an end to the continuation of the silent hunter franchise.
"if" they intend to make sh5 a non subsim game then its a bad choice that could and i suspect "will" blow up in their face and cause major financial losses to the company.
"silent hunter the video game" wont sell to the "fps gamers crowd" or the true "subsim" crowd that may not all want the same level of realism but they do want it based on realism.
in trying to appeal to both markets i fear they will end up with something that neither one wants to buy.
i would have rather see them do a sh3 expansion that adds the sh4 grafics and a new game engine instead.
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