I have to agree with Ducimus and Hitman on this one. I've not ordered the game as i'm happy enough to pop down to the local shop and buy it when it appears on the shelf, but I have been following these SHIV early reactions closely.
I've a very fast PC that I built myself - with excellent graphic capabilities so i'm disapointed with UBI, or rather their marketing smucks (why are marketing people so un-evolved, just look at the ads on TV and its pretty obvious a bull frog could do a better job). But I'm confident this will be fixed/patched/modded at some stage soon - by developers.
I'm not that interested in the Pacific War, much prefering the Atlantic War, but i've played SH3 to death and just can't bear the thought of loading it up anymore. Its the game i've played the longest in my 25 years of gaming but now the thought of it breaks me out into a sweat - I need something new and SH4 will be it.
So i'll pick it up, put it through its paces, hone my manual targeting skills and then wait for the patches and mods to make the game enjoyable.
As Hitman said, we should support Sub Sim game developments if only to maintain the market. And who knows, perhapps someone oneday will pick up SHI and add a graphic engine to it.
Cheers.....