They want to sell this game to as many console gamers as possible. Of course they're going to promote the dumbed down version first. Do you honestly think they want the reputation of "this game's too hard" before it's even released?
Look at RacePro and even Forza, every promo for those games has the arcade version, with the green and red arrows on the tracks telling you to slow down and speed up (with ABS, Auto tranny etc). Don't worry about it, we - the hardcore, if you will - already know that this game has a sim element. 1C need to gently expose the game to as many people as possible, in the hopes that the casual gamer will want to learn the sim elements eventually.
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