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Originally Posted by thruster
what incentive is there for any high powered software company to invest in such a niche market, if the last one died?
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There isn't any. EA's not suddenly going to release a sub sim if SH tanks.
However, there are probably some smaller dev houses that might. Ubisoft Romania, if looked at solely as a development team, isn't exactly some monolith; they're a niche game development house, with H.A.W.X. being the possible exception to that statement. They get Ubisoft's worldwide publishing power and brand recognition.
I could see some Russian group picking up the torch if Silent Hunter went the way of the dodo - maybe Akella. Russians seem to love themselves some sims. It wouldn't be as graphically polished as an Ubisoft release, no doubt about that, but I don't think the genre would die. Uncertain hiatus for a couple years, sure.