[Abraham]

SHIII had so many delays, partly caused by wishes and desires from the community, that the game was hussled into production without proper testing. There were some terrific features but a lot of loose ends as well.

In my opinion 3 Q 2007 means that the game will be ready as a beta at the end of the second quarter, beta testing will be done in the summer, correcting and gold in September/October so the game should be introduced long before the Christman season.

If the game is sceduled for 1 Q. 2007 it will probably mean that betatesting will start at the end of this year and the game will be in the shops around Eastern.

I think UBI thanks to SHIII realises that submarine games have commercial potential and that it is worthwhile to produce them the right way from day one. Also a pacific game may appeal to a wider US public than SHIII. And be sure UBI has seen how the Subsim community has grown since the introduction of SHIII.