They say realistic driving sims dont sell as well as they would like, and I'm guessing they are looking at the 3 big sim-racers of the last few years.
Ok let's see:
-Forza 2? Basically Forza 1.5, or Forza HD, plus a DLC scam going on which everyone knew about before the game was released. For many that had played Forza 1 on Xbox, it wasnt REALLY worth picking up at full price, plus if you're like me, you wanna avoid games that will DLC scam you anyway.
-DTM3/Toca3? Hardly ANY marketing AT ALL. Hard to find in the shops.
-GT4? Disappointing gameplay for many, or so I heard on messageboards.

If Forza 2 had been a REAL sequel, with a HUGE variety of NEW tracks and cars etc, I'm sure it would have sold. Right now though, it just had the same old tracks again, and boring lighting etc.
Who cares if a car has 10 billion polygons, if the environment looks so damn boring.

Take a look at a game like Rallisport Challenge 2, to see how trackdesign should be, in terms of FUN, and atmosphere, and lighting, and diversity, etc etc.
Rallisport Challenge 2 is still the very best racegame out there. Gameplay and design is just PERFECT. Long and challenging single-player mode, FREE DLC!, good online MP and daily, weekly and monthly time-attack challenges, etc etc.
Now THAT's a great racing game, that's also brilliant value for money!
A shame it isnt BC.

The idiots come to the conclusion that racing sims sell less and less. Yeah... that's not because of the GENRE, but because of the mediocre quality or (in the case of DTM3) the marketing!
Make a great racing sim, and people will LOVE it.

But you gotta make sure that's it's not the same old tracks once again.
We've all seen them a 1000 times before in racing games.
Go make some tracks up which are actually fun to race on, and gorgeous to drive through! Lots of dips and hills and trees and fast corners and fantastic lighting and animated crap on the side of the road etc etc etc.

I could spend months of thinking up great diverse tracks through all kinds of areas, simply by thinking what I'd think would be cool and fun to drive through.

And please, for the love of god, stop with the whole DLC scamming business. Enough is enough already.

Simple work on the next iteration of "ROAD RASH 4" With Online battles, "custom soundtracks", plenty of Cops to bash on, and big stages.

With that Engine a new "Road Rash" would be so sweet..oh well nobody is listening...

how bout making games multi platform,,, thats how you make money,, freakin idiots. They would made alot more money last year if they made this game for the ps3 too. The ps3 had alot of room to fit this game in last year,,, since we didnt have any really good racers last year. How bout this,, quit kissing microsoft's @ss so much and you might make more money. Jesus, they should have made it mandatory to get your common sense degree before they give out bachleors degrees for video game making.

Actually Forza 2 has sold well. Nearly 3million in Half a year is far from a poor seller.