Just FYI, SOW is not dead

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by LEXX

Skarp (taken out of context)::
Sadly, this by itself is true. All the extra polygons are never to be seen except in static closeup cameo screenshots on combat sim webboards, although also in advertising and gaming rag reviews in attempts to sell grafix alone. This is where air combat The Sims developers always make the same industry standard blunders trying to compete with the ground shooter sims on...on their own ground.

If you think about it, this is more due to hardware limitations. The hardware has been driven by first person shooters and the like (which in turn have been driven be 640x480xlotsadetail console games). If all gamers were simers we'd have 4092x3072 resolution monitors and video cards designed around them by now...