I can say that while I find SimHQ a good read on some things, its a better aggregator than anything else....and yes, they seem completely ignorant to the huge success Aces High has become. As I recall, theve, done 3+ articles running dozens of webpages, whining and moaning about consoles and the lack of good flight sims for the PC. They go on and on about how they'd pay $75...$100 more for a top notch sim, and how much they love USAFs custom skins (that noone saw but the person using them)....and here we sit, thousands of players, paying $15 a month for the best flight sim, multiplayer or otherwise...and not a word.....the term clueless comes to mind.
I tend to listen to their articles at work (I aggregate them and convert them text to speech).....and the robitic voice I listen too counldnt be any more appropriate than those articles being refered too here. They were talking about sims on consoles, and a few of the 'roundtable members' were talking about that as if I give a holy crap about the piece of hardware that delivers my game experience, that they should never review sims, on the consoles no matter how good they were.....geez, I know they arnt there now...but soon...
Heck, 5-10 years from now the PC will be a console for the most part. The way processors and graphics cards are going, they will exceed standard monitor resolutions and refresh rates at insane levels of detail in the next decade. It will become much like buying an oven....you can have a few options, and some will do a slightly better job at one thing than another, but for the most part they will all cook your dinner/run your games.
Imagine how much easier it will be for Hitech to code for 2-5 platforms instead of 200-500 hundred