elite4 won't be the top seller i guess, even when it will be outstanding.
Perhaps Gernot, or perhaps not, to my mind at least it will all be about balancing accessibility to complexity. If Mr Braben gets this right, the game has a very good chance of being a hit.
Thinking about this took me back to reading about Sid Meier's Civilization. At the time of the first game's release, everyone (except for Sid and Bill Shelley, his assistant designer) expected the game to fail, plus had not Sid been a part owner of Microprose, Civilization would have never seen the light of day. On release much was written about Sid's arrogance in releasing such an "obscure game". But we all know what happened next, success and buckets of it! Flying in the face of established thinking is not arrogance if you are actually correct.
I think there are some parallels between what Sid Meier did with his game and what David Braben could do now. Speaking of the here and now, David Braben sits at the head of his own company and is perfectly placed to create something wonderful despite many saying the space sim is a dead genre. I have faith that he will