I guess 15 year or more. The PC market is in decline, since the last 10 years sims are only a niche market mostly ignored by the big publishers. So there won't be much competition for Oleg, especially not in the hardcore segment. It's increasingly time consuming and thus expensive to develop a state of the art game engine, as we can witness just now with SOW.
Nobody would have anticipated that Il-2 is still the number 1 WW2 flight sim in 2010. Other than the Il-2 engine the SOW engine is especially designed to for longevity and expandability and to some extend will grow with new hardware.
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