I will seriously consider both titles and may end up purchasing both. I
am not a "modder" (or hacker, as iRacing has called them), but an end
user of the products that these ppl. create. In this sense, DK & Crew
have done a lot of damage to their reputation. The question is, who are
they targeting with their upcoming project? As is their way, secrecy is
the name of the game. Some say it is the same GPL/NRxxxx crowd (who now
despise them for a large part) and others say it will be hard core,
real life racers who may never have heard of NRxxxx or GPL. Which group
would be larger? Tough call if you ask me. Do real life racers want to
spend more money to buy a top end computer with all the needed goodies
(wheels,pedals,cpu,gfx card, speakers, etc.) on top of maintaining and
racing a real car? Will the Papy faithful (and not so faithful at this
point) be willing to overlook the past misdeeds? Personally, I am not
so foolish to say that I will not look at what iRacing puts out and may
even buy it. I like to sim race, simple as that. If their products
interests me and the reviews from fellow simmers (not magazines or
press releases) are good, then I'll probably jump in.

As for ISI, they need to continue to build on and surpass everything
that Papy did with NR2003. NR2003 is <the> benchmark right now for sim
racing and it's 2.5 yrs. old. There is no other sim racing title right
now that I use more than NR2003. I have RBR, GPL, NSR(ugh), F1C. They
can use whatever form of racing they choose, but it simply needs to be
as good as NR2003 is right now, including the MP and especially the
interface. A solid PC version of a menu system is essential, no
forward/back screens, no awkward calibration systems, no need to spend
hours tweaking a .plr file to activate various options. The previous
generation gfx needs to be overhauled to be more photorealistic.