I hope we never see this wonderful franchise move to the console.
Some genres lend themselves well to the console (racing, sports games etc), and others do not. My experience has been that once a title previously available on a PC is designed with the console in mind, that platform becomes the focus behind the design and it invariable gets dumbed down. The PC usually ends up with a less than ideal console port and it's never the same game again.
I'd love nothing more than to see the Silent Hunter franchise stay on the PC platform, but make no mistake, Ubi doesn't keep it there out of the love for the genre or franchise -- it's simple economics at this stage. Once Ubi decide there's more money to be made by taking the series cross-platform, they'll do it in a heartbeat. Even if it means the realism and authenticity will be sacrificed to bring the title to the broader couch playing masses. There's no romantic love for the genre behind its existence (as some would like to believe). At the end of the day, it's about the economics and ultimately, the bottom line. The franchise exists to make the publisher money, period. If consoles are deemed to increase the profits, that's where the franchise will go, tout de suite.
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