i think it should be put in stores NOW as an online game only.
it wont have this appeal or be technically the best for ever.
By the time S3 comes out, who knows what else is on the market by then, and how better.
Lfs is still only made by 3 guys and all we have today took 4 or 5 years.
For the big companies, 5 years is enough to produce 3 generations of games, and we are still in ALPHA.
What i am trying to say, you guys surelly noticed the heavy competition lfs got, starting from the last two years.
In the next 3 years, big names will be making way on what LFS helped to create in its best days.
Those best days were 2005 and 2006.
Today, in 2007 big companies are hiring BIG physicists to build tyre models and suspencion models for a console game (forza2).
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=314874
Its how serious its getting. Lfs should see the light of day before the big guys take over.