ORIGINAL: twinbrother
There may be only a small market, but even within that small market, a lower price point will potentially increase that market. I don't know by how much, but it's been proven that lower price brings in more customers.
Again lowering price to increase customers and sales that assumes that there is some form of prior interest which the existing price points do not cater to.
With RC sims it's simply not there, no matter how much we would like to think otherwise ( to get the price down for ourselves ).
Even the free FMS download volume bears this out...
"Potentially" in such a small market, is a huge risk for any firm. As it is they have no assurance of any large number of sales.... no matter what they do.
Double, treble, quadruple or multiply by 10 the current figures and you still have a very very TINY market even if you could bring your penetration up to say 80% ( something that will NEVER EVER happen ).
Cutting things too thin will guarantee no future releases.
I'd prefer to see the developers stick around, and not fall prey to this same very logic that decimated the better fidelity flight sims ...