Microsoft not out of the flight sim game after all...

[Friendly_flyer]

The sea looks nice in the short teaser, but I'll hold my judgement until I see what Oleg comes up with. Who knows what SoW will look like with all the bells and whistles.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Friendly_flyer

The sea looks nice in the short teaser, but I'll hold my judgement until I see what Oleg comes up with. Who knows what SoW will look like with all the bells and whistles.

Yes the water does look very good in the Microsoft teaser, but Microsoft has a history of grossly over hyping the graphic quality of their sims. I know I won't believe any of this until I see actual ingame videos from users.

[Flyby]

If it's a reworked FSX that won't be too bad. I don't expect a combat sim. I do expect the new sim to be coded for multi-core processors. I think MS got faked out when FSX came out. No doubt the thinking was that Intel would come out with a 6ghz processor one day so that FSX could be run in all it's glory. Psyche!!

MS did close it's flight sim department some time ago, iirc. So jumping back in must be in the accountants' realm of practicality. Now if they accidentally spit out CFS4 I might be interested in buying it.
Flyby out

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Flyby

MS did close it's flight sim department some time ago, iirc. So jumping back in must be in the accountants' realm of practicality.

yeah .. but that old lot were wasting time and money trying to build an actual simulator, whereas what Accounts and Marketing wanted was superficial and pretty and runnable on any generic PC with built in graphics (you know like magic School Bus with wings). They just had to go

[Ailantd]

Come on, I cant believe that you guys can´t recognice the difference between a renderer movie and real time image. That video is renderer for sure, not RT.

[philip.ed]

Baron is speaking sense here. Anyone remember the promo for CFS3?

[Skoshi Tiger]

Of course, I did like the faided-out, sweat drenched Aviatrix in a mid-rift top at the side of the page. I'ld buy it just for that! That the sign of a serious simulation!

[Flying Pencil]

I am TOTALLY underwhelmed.

Looks all fluff (is that a topless chick on the right side??).

The fact it is a LIVE game,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_f...%E2%80%93_LIVE
suggests they are using the FS-X engine for online flying around.

IOW, nothing new.



I could be wrong, tho.

[WWFlybert]

a bit more info here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/20344...html?tk=hp_new

[Ernst]

I would like they consider combat simulations too, then maybe Oleg and team, and even TD (with pacthes) decide to go faster.

Some concorrence is good! Things go faster, like in the war. The flight sim market is stopped, may this make it move.