New MS Flight Sim shown at E3

[SKEWR 364]

Not trolling. There is a NEW MS Flight sim shown at Electronics Expo (E3)!!!!

[Sethos 4,300]

 

[Benzhangar 108]

You beat me to it.  XD   This is amazing!

[ziomalnik 7]

Waited over 10 years!

[David Vega 348]

Microsoft just announced a new flight simulator at their E3 presentation.  

[PaulGR 168]

Hooooooly!

[Shaheen 3]

But from my understanding it's for Xbox 

[Torg Smith 31]

I am stoked. It was a total surprise to me.

[SilentChill 43]

No it's for PC and it looks unreal !!!

[PaulGR 168]

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Edited June 9, 2019 by PaulGR

[ziomalnik 7]

1 minute ago, Shaheen said:

But from my understanding it's for Xbox 

No, its for PC. You can play by buying xbox pass

[ckyliu 1,749]

Well I'm going to be very cynical, sorry to be a downer but I'm very doubtful there'll anything to hold the attention of us proper flight simmers. It's a pretty video but we've seen this all before from Microsoft with Flight, aimed at casual gamers and revenue heavily dependent based on MS selling a lot of rushed DLC, probably ortho sceneries looking at that video. There'll be a few select places where it looks very pretty and detailed like the video (I'm not convinced that airport stuff is in-game footage), then everything else will likely be rubbish and/or cost extra. It'll either run roughly or there'll be no systems depth, especially as Xbox One isn't all that powerful. Wouldn't be surprised if third party developers are entirely locked out the ecosystem or have to pay licensing to MS to have it distributed via their platform.

EDIT: wondering if it'll be cloud based photo scenery, with the whole game on a subscription basis. On the plus side graphics suggest a possible evolution of the game engine used in Flight which seemed pretty solid but lacking in content. But a clean break to something like Unigine or Outerra engines might be better.

Edited June 10, 2019 by ckyliu

[reecemj 144]

Xbox oh no! But it looks very good.

[ziomalnik 7]

3 minutes ago, ckyliu said:

Well I'm going to be incredible cynical, sorry to be a downer but I'm very doubtful there is anything there for us proper flight simmers. We've seen this all before from Microsoft with Flight, aimed at casual gamers and heavily dependent based on selling a lot of rushed DLC, probably ortho sceneries looking at that video. There'll be a few select places where it looks very pretty and details, then everything else will likely be rubbish and/or cost extra. It'll either run roughly or there'll be no systems depth, especially as Xbox One isn't all that powerful.

Its on PC. XBOX is now like stream platfrom you can play some games on xbox some games only on xbox and some games only on PC by buying xbox pass

Edited June 9, 2019 by ziomalnik

[SilentChill 43]

2 minutes ago, ckyliu said:

Well I'm going to be incredible cynical, sorry to be a downer but I'm very doubtful there is anything to hold the attention of us proper flight simmers. We've seen this all before from Microsoft with Flight, aimed at casual gamers and heavily dependent based on selling a lot of rushed DLC, probably ortho sceneries looking at that video. There'll be a few select places where it looks very pretty and detailed, then everything else will likely be rubbish and/or cost extra. It'll either run roughly or there'll be no systems depth, especially as Xbox One isn't all that powerful.

What like FSX ?