June 30, 200916 yr It seems search interest in Flight Simulator at least as gauged by google searcheshas been falling since 2004.http://www.google.com/trends?q=flight+simu...=all&sort=0You can see the yearly Christmas interest peaks and the massive peak when MS released FSX but the downward trend then continued.Given the great reduction in PC cost needed to run a simand number of PCs sold over that time I might have thought otherwise. Processor: Intel Core i7 [email protected] Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX670 OC RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1866 [9-9-9-24-2T] Motherboard: Asus P8Z68 Pro / Gen 3 Best Ever FSX Tip: Adaptive Vertical Sync 1/2 Refresh Rate
July 1, 200916 yr Excellent site by the way. Never new such thing existed. - Red E8500 @ 4.1 | EVGA 275GTX (overclocked) | 2x2GB Mushkin Enhanced Redline @ 1066 | Samsung 24inch LCD @ 1920x1080 |
July 1, 200916 yr Author It is interesting, they also track trends on websites, here's avsim.com :http://trends.google.com/websites?q=avsim....=all&sort=0Most sites seem to be trending down, try and find a website that is trending up ? Processor: Intel Core i7 [email protected] Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX670 OC RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1866 [9-9-9-24-2T] Motherboard: Asus P8Z68 Pro / Gen 3 Best Ever FSX Tip: Adaptive Vertical Sync 1/2 Refresh Rate
July 1, 200916 yr Makes sense in terms of flight sim, or any game/product, after its release. All the other non-FS/product related sites I checked are stable. - Chris Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX | Intel Core i9 13900KF | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB | 64GB DDR5 SDRAM | Corsair H100i Elite 240mm Liquid Cooling | 1TB & 2TB Samsung Gen 4 SSD | 1000 Watt Gold PSU | Windows 11 Pro | Thrustmaster Boeing Yoke | Thrustmaster TCA Captain X Airbus | Asus ROG 38" 4k IPS Monitor (PG38UQ) Asus Maximus VII Hero motherboard | Intel i7 4790k CPU | MSI GTX 970 4 GB video card | Corsair DDR3 2133 32GB SDRAM | Corsair H50 water cooler | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD (2) | EVGA 1000 watt PSU - Retired
July 2, 200916 yr It is interesting, they also track trends on websites, here's avsim.com :http://trends.google.com/websites?q=avsim....=all&sort=0Most sites seem to be trending down, try and find a website that is trending up ?It's summer time where the majority of the earths population exists. Everyone is out in the sun not surfing the internet. Chris Miller
July 2, 200916 yr Author It's summer time where the majority of the earths population exists. Everyone is out in the sun not surfing the internet.Think its time to join them :)The only decent looking fight sim related trend graph I could find is for Aerosoft. Processor: Intel Core i7 [email protected] Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX670 OC RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1866 [9-9-9-24-2T] Motherboard: Asus P8Z68 Pro / Gen 3 Best Ever FSX Tip: Adaptive Vertical Sync 1/2 Refresh Rate
July 2, 200916 yr Think its time to join them :)The only decent looking fight sim related trend graph I could find is for Aerosoft.That makes sense. They're releasing a new product like every week--or so it seems.
July 2, 200916 yr It's summer time where the majority of the earths population exists. Everyone is out in the sun not surfing the internet.Or flying to/from Phoenix...or flying to/driving from DC...or flying to/from Juneau...or working on cars...or fighting the cat for bed space...or making 120-plus devilled eggs for a family party... :(
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