It's actually more like super limited print runs. Seriously, if you look at the fiasco that was the Europa series and what it became - basically you have a very small publisher (or like the same reason that Guthrie books on the Thirty Years war are over $100 apiece - maybe well over as I got mine about 5 years ago) - I guess it isn't for everyone; essentially a specialty product.
I'm probably going to grab the Pacific titles in pdf versions, and expect to do something with them on my own page. You can find AARs around at places like Consimworld -and they get pretty detailed; they have maybe more acronyms than might be useful for people entirely new to the system (basically like myself).
I was nearly going to grab Fresno's Pacific game just to work with it - but well... why???
I don't actually mind the graphics in TSWW series ... I've seen a lot worse. The beat the Europa ones hands down, and seriously, have any of you seen Tiger of Malaya by AP? One massive mistake some guys go with is 'over-texture'.
Also it sounds like they might be developing an online version - but I am not exactly sure what that amounts to; I've been in a mmpog type of environment with what claimed to be a 'wargame' -and it was nothing but capture the flag - and all in the overly fascinating terrain of Belgium -- in fact all WWII was set in Belgium eventually --- it was... scintillating (even more so, since they actually implied that this was going to be all sorts of different theatres...) it became more of a massed dysfunctional social club -as opposed to actual wargame like material.
Forgot to add - you can sometime see them referred to as Diffraction Games.