Maybe I can find more polls
A poll from 2009, which was voted by just 59 people, and one from 2010, which had 23 voters aren't very representative.
Along 2010 and more now, we have noticed an acceleration of the FS9 decline, it used to be a strong 42-45% up to last year, but our more recent data shows that FSX is finally gaining over. And, we have a little bit more solid data, because having a Trial we have several thousands downloads of each product, every month.
For our latest scenery, Hawaii Vol. 1, 65% of downloads were of the FSX version so, the trend is clear and, as they say, in economy only trends matters...
Not that this has much to do with our decision to do or not KLAX for FS9, that's entirely technical and doesn't have anything to do with market share, since even an FS9 at 30% of the market is still viable for us, provided it doesn't take too long to do a conversion from FSX to FS9, which as of today, never took more than a week.
The issue with KLAX with purely based on quality: since we already HAVE a KLAX scenery for FS9 on sale, it wouldn't make much sense to release a new product if it wouldn't look better than a 4 years old one. We believe we'll be able to outdo Cloud9 KLAX but, since lots of design methods we are trying on KLAX are quite new, there's always the chance something might not look right on FS9. However, as I've said in a previous post, it's likely there will be a new KLAX for FS9, that will look probably better than the Cloud9 version but, will also look drastically worse than the FSX version...so, if you want to get the "real" KLAX, use it in FSX. Not an issue with our products, since our licence works for both sims at the same price...