Looks to me that the gaming industry is killing simulation.
Microsoft sacked the entire Flight Simulator staff, not profitable enough.

LFS niche market will not be interesting enough for EA, there is more money to be made on games like dirt, fuel, etc... arcade racing. Its about how much will your invested dollar churn out, what will your stockholders want you to do. You will not find something as LFS from large developers soon, if ever. And even if that happens, I seriously dont think you will want to be part of the racing community that would be attracted.

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Well, maybe it affects fps, but not graphics.

Hmm, isn't that the point? We could have pixar quality image, if we would be satisfied with 1 frame each 3 hours? As I see it speed has a direct link with what and what you cannot do for the eye candy level. I think what you are trying to say is that anything done with DX can also be done in the 'game' itself (correct I think). Yet, wouldn't you have to program directly for each different card? I thought that is what DirectX was all about, to be an API kinda thing?

I second anyone mentioning possibility for karting... that would really be funny. Nice track to race on should be included. But perhaps the physics of this would be a challenge. And you have a much more direct feeling with the thing as it bounces all over with its zero suspension. I don't know how that would translate to our simulator which does not yet have g-force feedback...

But seriously, there should not be too many cars I think, more cars mean more classes and I don't think I am really eager to see that happen. I am pretty content with the cars we have now.

Great, that was one of the things the G25 really needed, you just recieved my order.