A "fixed" version of P5 and a complete rewrite may not be mutually exclusive. If indeed P4 bugs still lurk within P5 then to some degree it must still be based on the old P4 (or even P3) code. If they hope to compete then at some point they are going to have to bite the bullet and start clean. They might have stumbled along as long as they had no competition but with even a half decent Studio to compete against... I'm don't agree that absolutely any unreasonable set of requirements can be accomplished on time and on spec. You simply can't will working software into existence, especially when you consider other factors besides time and specifications, like Budget and Morale. The best programmers in the world can't be real productive when they're spending half their time surfing jobs.com and fearing that every email is a layoff notice. I like your scenario who3d. The Germans might be willing to sell cheap right now too. Since it sounds like a lot of the new stuff in P5 was bolted on anyway, they could just as easily bolt it on to Studio and maybe even use the right bolts. The whole P5 bugs issue is probably just a trans-Atlantic metric vs standard thing.

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