Microsoft Flight!

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Microsoft just announced Flight!
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/

I hope modern computers will be able to run it!!!

[ian@737ng.co.uk]

watched the vid, half of it was the 'rating'.   am i missing something here ?     is MS back in the game ?
somebody please enlighten me 
thnx ... ian

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It was a shock to me!
Maybe the ACES layoffs was about outsourcing the work to someone else???
Very little info out there right now.

[ETomlin]

Well it's apparent that they definately are back in some "game" but how much of it will benefit us will remain to be seen. I for one am ecstatic over this, regardless if I ever use it for my sim or not. Why? I love the product and franchise. It affected my life so much that I changed my career because of it back in 1998!

Getting on to the announcement though, according to the press release it is being done In-House. See here:

Introducing "Microsoft Flight"

Twenty-eight years after the debut of "Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0," Microsoft Game Studios also announced the internal development of "Microsoft Flight," a new Windows exclusive. "Microsoft Flight" will bring a new perspective to the long-standing genre, welcoming everyone, including long-time fans, to experience the magic of flight.

A teaser of the future of Flight on the Windows-based PC is available at http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight.

[JWS]

I don't know if it's my PC but the video seems like a slide show. Will this be FSX revisited?

JWS

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I don't know if it's my PC but the video seems like a slide show.

It is on youtube too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-X5IEJqOE

[fsaviator]

Hopefully the actual software runs better then the video...

Let me guess that proprietary and intellectual patents and ownership will result in MS Flight be a complete different system, rendering all the software and hardware we currently own obsolete.

Why call it flight?  I can't help but get the feeling that MS thinks the term "Flight Simulator" is a bad word, or had negative connotations.  Why else break from the long standing tradition?

Warren

[jackpilot]

Besides the curiosity that we cant refrain.....just ignore it Guys and sleep tight. Nothing will be obsolete  unless we say so.
Microsoft has big planners and moneymakers at work, wether we bite the bait or not is our decision.


My1¢

[JWS]

Why call it flight?  I can't help but get the feeling that MS thinks the term "Flight Simulator" is a bad word, or had negative connotations.  Why else break from the long standing tradition?

Warren

On YouTube there are some that fear this is going to be an arcade game for Xbox, not a simulator. I certainly am not considering to buy a Xbox.
For a moment I felt sorry for the Aerosoft-guys who seem to be working on a replacement for flight simulator. But maybe Microsoft makes a second big mistake. Who knows.

JWS