Someone from CA (Gil as I recall) posted recently that the banners flash white/original colour when routing. It seemed to me also in the Gamespot piece that the flashing speeds up the nearer the unit comes to routing.

It was good to see in the interview that CA really appreciate the feedback they get from the forums, and that they have heated debates about the same topics that feature heavily here (and on other forums), especially around gameplay versus historical accuracy.

They also confirmed that the game was originally going to be released a year ago, and that Activision gave them an extra year to add in all the cool features in their wish list. This suggests the final game should be very polished, as it has had an extra year of development than it might.

CA talk about RTW having a much larger impact in the market than MTW or STW, especially in the USA; no doubt they are anxiously awaiting the first sales figures, to see if all their effort and the publicity (including TV programmes) has paid off.

So how much more money than MTW did RTW take to develop? And how many more sales than MTW will RTW make?

Well, MTW took 2 years to develop (not including development on STW).
RTW has taken 4 years, probably with a (much?) bigger development team. So, estimate RTW has cost 2-3 times more to develop than MTW.

As for sales...any one care to guess?