[genbrien]

If they need cash for the game, they won't release early in the year. They'll release it when all the soccer mums are looking for games to buy their kid for christmas. It doesn't matter whether we want it now or whether it is actually ready for release - it's about maximising profits on release.

If they released the game in Q2 2009 as cited by IGN, the game would have been moved from the "new releases" shelf to the abandoned "sports/racing/flying" section with very little exposure to customers who might purchase it because it has a pretty picture on it.

Guys who have been flying IL-2 for all these years belong to the group that don't need advertising to, and will purchase the game regardless of when it is put on the shelves. But Joe Public who has only ever heard about these mystical 'flight simulators' will only be looking at what's in front of him - a pretty box on the 'new releases' shelf.

Yeas.. but i dont think that there're will be soooooooooo many new people that will buy it. that game is meant to be for person, like us, that love to fly the real way.... Others will take, for exemple, the new HAWX or an other arcade game.
But it's just my 2cents :wink: