Greetings from PMDG

[jrw4 624]

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, Capt. R released this message earlier

https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/99506-25dec20-merry-christmas-to-all-and-to-all-a-good-flight#post99556

Included is the announcement that an update to their 777 package was going out to beta testers. Normally, this would be of little interest outside of PMDG's P3D customer community, but I thought the following paragraph might be relevant here

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Now- to be blunt, we are certifiably insane to continue making improvements on a 7.5 year old product. Software companies don't DO this at no cost. We arguably should simply take it off the market and replace it, and were it not for Covid and were it not for MSFS that is what would be happening about this time. But it is likely that many customers are eager to make a shift to MSFS and many more customers are feeling the economic pinch of Covid so we simply feel that it makes more sense to give you a free update and look to the inevitable need to rebuild this product for conversion to MSFS, as that makes the perfect time to completely rebuild the 777 from the ground up. We KNOW that is coming- we don't know precisely when. Probably 2022, at which time the 777 will be nine years old- so the time to make these updates is NOW.

I will let others attempt to parse the exact meaning of this to those of us on the MSFS side of the equation, but it does sound like this model will eventually reach us, although not anytime soon.

Best wishes to all for a happy holiday and safer, more sane New Year.

 

[FleaJump 7]

This is music to my ears for sure.  Jaw dropping ground scenery, ultra-realistic weather and cloud rendering, all capped off with a PMDG high-fidelity heavy metal jet crafted for 2020's amazing MSFS.   Great time to be alive for sure.  I will make sure that I do survive long enough for the 2020 MSFS PMDG777 to be released, even if I am obliged to skirmish with that pesky virus in the meantime.     

[Car147 2,278]

Welcome news.

[regis9 4,014]

The most shocking thing to me in that paragraph is that the PMDG 777 is 7.5 years old!  Wow time flies.

[rtodepart 761]

time flies . good to know they are taking the time to bring this bird up for MSFS2020 ....

[Manny 1,293]

I am confused. why is this good news? PMDG is targeting the 777 for MSFS sometime in 2022. Right?

(At least 2 years away). Does this mean its going to be sooner than originally anticipated?  Is 2022 considered sooner? What am I missing?

[FleaJump 7]

Any time The PMDG Oracle speaks, this is good news for all mortals.   

Monitoring the clock on the wall, for the first sign of 2022. No cause for alarm.  All is well in the known universe. 

[guenseli 1,591]

no native speaker here ... but couldn't it be also understood, that they will convert it now for free (release soon after that beta) and start then to build it up from scratch for a new release 2022?

[RobJC 2,069]

I might have a pc capable of running this thing by then. No way my system can handle a study level 777 right now. 

[Taver 57]

Good news for the 777 but I only want one plane for MSFS 2020. The PMDG DC-6.

[Noel 4,499]

 

20 minutes ago, Manny said:

I am confused. why is this good news? PMDG is targeting the 777 for MSFS sometime in 2022. Right?

(At least 2 years away). Does this mean its going to be sooner than originally anticipated?  Is 2022 considered sooner? What am I missing?

2022 is 1y6d away.  This is very good news because it again affirms PMDG is on board with MSFS to the point they are diverting a complete update for P3D instead aiming for MSFS for a brand new version.  I really like the 777 ;o)

[turbomax 3,285]

19 minutes ago, FleaJump said:

Any time The PMDG Oracle speaks, this is good news for all mortals.  

consider me immortal then 🙂

[captain420 3,099]

I really hope to see the PMDG 777 on MSFS before the 737. That and the 747-8 are my favorites from PMDG!

[jrw4 624]

16 minutes ago, captain420 said:

I really hope to see the PMDG 777 on MSFS before the 737. That and the 747-8 are my favorites from PMDG!

I believe that PMDG previously indicated that the 737ng3 would be their first MSFS2020 product.

[tutmeister 710]

9 minutes ago, jrw4 said:

I believe that PMDG previously indicated that the 737ng3 would be their first MSFS2020 product.

I hope they stand by this, it’s the only reason I bought the ngxu!