... and this cannot happen soon enough. I've gotten tired of turn, turn, turn, turn, ad infinitum. Bring on some strategy and tactics... although that will mean many deaths for me. LOL

Personally, I'm betting on there being a small patch to fix bugs, and then a separate optional DLC that costs money which will add cockpits and some other content.

Microsoft very rarely allows new content of any kind to be given away for free by companies who develop for the 360. And they try to keep game patches small because a lot of users have a 360 Arcade without a hard drive and little memory space available.

THe 360 Arcade is now discontinued by MS and is no longer part of there sales lineup. And the actual sales of HDD's to the sales of 360 consoles (discounting those sold with HDD's) is almost on par, so the majority of owners have an HDD of some capacity.

As for the patch and DLC; Thats already a given, the dev team said this over a fortnight ago. There will be a patch and then a proposed DLC pack.

They still make and sell tons of the Arcade units. They no longer make the old crummy versions of 12 months ago and longer. The new units use less power, put off less heat and much more reliable.

Some are shipping with 512mb of flash memory built-in. Mine purchased 10 months ago only has 256mb.

Seriously, the cockpits should be free and not premium DLC. They should have been in the game form the start and are a fundamental part of the whole sim play in the game, they should not charge for them. new planes and stuff, yes, but not the cockpits of planes already in the game