Chance of an Expansion?

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Personally, i think SH5 will be the last submarine simulation released for many years to come. Their just isn't a big enough market for it this day and age.

You've been saying that for a few months now. I used to disagree with you, but as of late, I have come to believe that you are indeed correct.

From the SubSim Meet 2008?
I never really thought SH5 would be here now.
I figured on one more year till release.
(It needed it badly unfortunately for us.)
The market was bad enuff before SH5.
Then they throw out something that just wasted a possible whole new crowd!
As I go back and watch the hype?
I keep seeing Crack being sold on the street corner.

[janh]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

You've been saying that for a few months now. I used to disagree with you, but as of late, I have come to believe that you are indeed correct.

You guys are probably right, but I would also not completely rule out any surprise from a new publisher that sees his time to enter this genre come now.

Also Sonalysts have been doing well recently, and might be up to "outsource" some of their training software for the navy again as a greatly simplified game. Maybe they'll finally work on a new sequel for 1950+ naval warfare.

My opinion is that if we were given simulations at a lower release rate (in contrast to Ubis new strategy), but each time with substantial new features and improvements as wished by the community, and great modding capabilities, then these games would have a long lifetime and may over a few years generate their 150k sales. And with good games like SHIII, especially once it was supermodded, I can wait for another 3-5 years for the sequel.