If I ever get a console it would be a SteamBox.

With regards to this topic...thank god for LM.

Gotta love Avsim. Always looking at the downside instead of the upside in the infinite cycle of holding on to 9 year old technologies.

 

<snip to save space>

 

Couldn't have said it better myself, especially on the topic of the technology. Times are changing. Computers are capable of so much more. Microsoft Flight's actually really powerful engine was a step in the right direction, and it seems that Dovetail will be utilizing it.

 

There's really no downside regardless of what it ends up being. If it ends up being a true game with no true system functionality, it gets new people interested in aviation and eventually gets them interested in our hobby (more simmers = more reasons for developers to continue to support our community). If it ends up being essentially FSX-level in function and has mod support/a SimConnect equivalent (Fallout 4 will actually support mods on the XBox One), it's another platform that us simmers have the choice to move to.

 

In the end, your copy of FSX/P3D/X-Plane/etc will remain untouched and you don't have to do anything with FS2016 if you don't want to.

Well, that was expected news from Dovetail GAMES!

& their 2016!? releases are called Dovetail Games Flight Simulator along with Dovetail Games Fishing, followed up by Dovetail Games Train Simulator.

 

Guys, really, what did you expect from Dovetail? Thse guys are entertainment gaming distributers, no more, no less,  & it should be a mistake to expect a new hard-core sim from them to satisfy those of us still holding on to (I quote from above) 9 year old entertainment technology.

 

With regards to this topic...thank god for LM.

 

A single sentence with more sense in it than the entire thread put together. In short, if you don't like the thought of a flight simulator that is also being released on console, then buy yourself a copy of P3D. Simple.

On software alone I have spent nearly 1,500 Euro since last September, so I'll be sticking with my P3D. As well as that, new flight Sim next year, sure it would take ages to mature into something good.

Well I suppose the whole point been that it might mature into something great

P3D V2 is great - simply great!

This is good news, new market means more flight simmers. 

No, it means that they're developing it for the crowd who thinks GTA V is a better flight simulator than FSX (I have actually seen people say this more than once before).

 

GTA V is certainly a more enjoyable 'seat of your pants' casual flight experience than my wheezy old FSX with its lack of crash damage detection and lack of interactive real-world environment.. So each to his own.

 

..and if Dovetail's new flightsim/game encourages kids and teenagers to get into virtual flying in more depth, as I'm sure GTA V has done..by pushing them onto P3D, FSX-SE and X-Plane etc, then all the better...

 

Scenic flight -console

 

 

GTA V emergency landing - console...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzp9irhVx8t=06m30s

 

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GTA V is certainly a more enjoyable and 'seat of your pants' casual flight experience than my old FSX with its lack of crash damage detection and lack of interactive real-world environment.. So each to his own.

..and if Dovetail's new flightsim/game encourages kids and teenagers to get into virtual flying in more depth, as I'm sure GTA V has done..by pushing them onto P3D, FSX-SE and X-Plane etc, then all the better...

 

GTA V flight on console...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzp9irhVx8t=06m30s

 

Great video! If GTA V would have just 3 things (more refined flight models, more system depth, and air traffic/navaids simulation), it would trump all the other "serious" flight simulators in terms of immersion and suspension of disbelief. Of course adding those 3 things would mean a lot of work in practice.

Windows 10 include the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) delivers compatibility for your game across Windows 10-based devices. The platform provides a common API for phone, PC, and Xbox One, along with tools and options to tailor your game to each device experience.

 

This mean it will be possible to  play and connect with gamers across Xbox One and Windows 10 devices. Yt willalso be possible to stream r Xbox One games to any Windows 10 PC.

 

Times they are a'changing!

Let's see if they can do a convincing overcast

Also: http://news.xbox.com/2015/06/xbox-xbox-and-oculus-partner-to-change-the-face-of-virtual-reality

Windows 10 include the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) delivers compatibility for your game across Windows 10-based devices. The platform provides a common API for phone, PC, and Xbox One, along with tools and options to tailor your game to each device experience.

 

This mean it will be possible to play and connect with gamers across Xbox One and Windows 10 devices. Yt willalso be possible to stream r Xbox One games to any Windows 10 PC.

 

Times they are a'changing!

Who cares? I don't have an Xbox, would never have one, nor do I have a MS account. How does this benefit me?

I see this as a good thing:  Microsoft, Windows 10, and Dovetail Games in combination might provide some "code breaking" in our flight sim engine that might just improve the memory and performance issues that we all face. Windows 10 is a PC operating system, and if Microsoft wants it to showcase it with FS???, it has to allow Dovetail some access to the code, and thus provide some needed performance improvements.  With some twist of irony, Microsoft gets back into FS by way of a third party developer.

tony

Those are exactly the reactions I expected.  <_< Why not wait and see what Dovetail's new simulator is going to be like before criticising it? They did say that they thought Microsoft Flight was too dumbed-down, isn't that a little reassuring?