This one is kinda old.

He announced a new weather engine  in 28.7 for the next x-plane and how it is gonna work. 

3 hours ago, VBHB said:

Of course he'll be abrasive because his market share is about to go pop.

False.

LR potential market (not aware of the current numbers):

A) has a little to do with MSFS since x-plane desktop is trageted for pro and companies to use, msfs is not.

B)MSFS is windows PC and Xbox only. X-plane is native in windows, mac, linux, and almost every mobile on the world. In fact Desktop X-plane shares about 75%-80% of the code with mobile and no reason for it to change in Vulkan which is multi-platform too. 

 

 

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by mtaxp

Nobody expect Austin and 5 users care about rotational inverse blade theory. I downloaded a free trial of X-Plane last year. Tried it. Deleted it.

X-Plane will become another niche product.

59 minutes ago, mtaxp said:

A) has a little to do with MSFS since x-plane desktop is trageted for pro and companies to use, msfs is not

Ha ha ha, it's always the same argument: it's not for the masses, it's for the elite! Too funny.

5 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Ha ha ha, it's always the same argument: it's not for the masses, it's for the elite! Too funny.

Your comment has nothing to do with what I said, so laugh as long as you want.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by mtaxp

1 hour ago, mtaxp said:

A) has a little to do with MSFS since x-plane desktop is trageted for pro and companies to use, msfs is not.

Are there any numbers how big their revenue is compared to the entertainment branch? Since the massive influx of P3D/FSX converts in the past 2-4 years, I am not sure private users are as irrelevant as depicted.

 

1 hour ago, mtaxp said:

B)MSFS is windows PC and Xbox only. X-plane is native in windows, mac, linux, and almost every mobile on the world. In fact Desktop X-plane shares about 75%-80% of the code with mobile and no reason for it to change in Vulkan which is multi-platform too.

Windows is still by far (about 2/3) the most used OS in XP, followed by Mac and an irrelevant small percentage of Linux users.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by tweekz

21 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Nobody expect Austin and 5 users care about rotational inverse blade theory. I downloaded a free trial of X-Plane last year. Tried it. Deleted it.

X-Plane will become another niche product.

I downloaded the trial on January. Tried it, bought it, bought a joystick, rudders and a vr helmet, been having a blast.

23 minutes ago, tweekz said:

Are there any numbers how big their revenue is compared to the entertainment branch? Since the massive influx of P3D/FSX converts in the past 2-4 years, I am not sure private users are as irrelevant as depicted.

 

Windows is still by far (about 2/3) the most used OS in XP, followed by Mac and an irrelevant small percentage of Linux users.

You might be right as i have no official numbers.

However you should count smart-phones as x-plane supports them, those probably have a huge revenue too.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by mtaxp

7 minutes ago, mtaxp said:

However you should count smart-phones as x-plane supports them, those probably have a huge revenue too.

Everyone knows it can't be a real flight sim unless it runs on a smart phone.

Hook

1 minute ago, LHookins said:

Everyone knows it can't be a real flight sim unless it runs on a smart phone.

Hook

Here you go, you have my thumbs up for your nice sarcasm comment.

Which is again, just like that other guy before, has nothing to do with what I said.

Keep going and entertaining!

32 minutes ago, mtaxp said:

Here you go, you have my thumbs up for your nice sarcasm comment.

Which is again, just like that other guy before, has nothing to do with what I said.

Keep going and entertaining!

It's just that so many XPers look down on MSFS as a toy compared to their sim, designed for professionals. Seeing it getting released on mobile devices kind of doesn't fit in that picture.

Just the usual "my toy is better" battle.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by tweekz

This kind of bickering is pointless and childish.    I am not a fan of XP for purely subjective reasons, but I have huge respect for Austin.  I may not prefer his sim, but I have learned a lot from his talks over the years.  He is hugely passionate about the science of flight and is therefore one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting characters in our industry.  

But XP is a passion project of him and only Austin will ever understand why he makes certain decisions.  He really isn't interested in what you think of XP , or what add-ons are available for XP or what controllers are available for XP, - and he is clearly dismissive of competition which stems from his own belief in his product.  Nothing wrong with that.  It's admirable.  I think if XP only appealed to purists who only see things things the way he sees things, he'd be happy with that.  He has enough commercial income off XP anyway.  He really is not interested in little Jonny with his bedroom PC and a copy of XP.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by ErichB

9 minutes ago, ErichB said:

He really is not interested in little Jonny with his bedroom PC and a copy of XP.

Gawd I hope not!  That would be a little freaky.

Hook

Anyway back to original topic, next x-plane is CONFIRMED to have a new weather engine (and weather rednering) and new scenery (working with an external company/easter european free lancers.).

We should all just wait until Vulkan is stable, they already stated that behind the scenes stuff for next x-plane will be unleashed after, most of LR are not working on Vulkan, it's only sidney and ben. It would be nice to finally aee what the others have been doing all this time.

Edited August 13, 20205 yr by mtaxp

Just now, mtaxp said:

new scenery (working with an external company)

Unless the company is Google and using their map data, it's all a bit of a busted flush.