OK, I'll grant that observation.

But if that's the road we are going to go down, we all (simmers) should quit comparing any XBox version with using the sim on a PC platform.  They are two completely different animals.  AVSIM should create separate MSFS XBox and MSFS PC forums.  If not, we are going to be arguing about differences in performance, appearance, and "scaleability" (slider availability) between the hardware platforms.  It's already bad enough that PC users argue with each other about how flight sims should look and perform based on the user's own wide range of hardware capabilities.  Now we are comparing a gaming console version with a PC version of the simulator.  It gets mind numbing doing that with all the different opinions about "It should look this way on my PC!" followed by, "No!  I have an XBox and it looks great!"  Next thing you know somebody is gonna say, "Well, I just watched a YouTube video of it on my iPhone and it looked fine to me!" 🤣

One big thing the XBOX version gives is a very stable known platform. So if there are issues on the XBOX version then Asobo will instantly be able to recreate them and probably be able to solve/mitigate them. Whereas if a problem is reported on the PC version then there are just a massive amount of hardware/driver variations that could be causing the issue rather than the code and also very difficult for Asobo to reproduce as they don't have that exact hardware.

CJ

17 hours ago, FalconAF said:

OK, I'll grant that observation.

But if that's the road we are going to go down, we all (simmers) should quit comparing any XBox version with using the sim on a PC platform.  They are two completely different animals.  AVSIM should create separate MSFS XBox and MSFS PC forums.  If not, we are going to be arguing about differences in performance, appearance, and "scaleability" (slider availability) between the hardware platforms.  It's already bad enough that PC users argue with each other about how flight sims should look and perform based on the user's own wide range of hardware capabilities.  Now we are comparing a gaming console version with a PC version of the simulator.  It gets mind numbing doing that with all the different opinions about "It should look this way on my PC!" followed by, "No!  I have an XBox and it looks great!"  Next thing you know somebody is gonna say, "Well, I just watched a YouTube video of it on my iPhone and it looked fine to me!" 🤣

I don't think many pure X-Box users of MSFS - that is, people that only use MSFS on X-Box and not on PC, hang around the AVSIM forums anyways.  If there are any X-Box users of MSFS in AVSIM, it's probably people that had a copy of MSFS on PC before X-Box, and then happen to have an X-Box at the same time.  I think AVSIM mostly caters to the more "hardcore" or serious sim enthusiast.  X-Box users of MSFS tend to be more casual so I doubt they would come here to AVSIM.

1 hour ago, abrams_tank said:

I think AVSIM mostly caters to the more "hardcore" or serious sim enthusiast.  X-Box users of MSFS tend to be more casual so I doubt they would come here to AVSIM.

To quote an old movie....

"If you build it, they will come."

It's only a matter of time.  Heck, we already have people here saying they bought an XBox for MSFS.  The last thing I want to start doing is comparing my PC performance to what they say they are "seeing" on their XBox in a "one size fits all" MSFS forum.  It was bad enough when we had to guess (most of the time) what version of P3D a person had in the P3D forum.  I lost count of how many times people were making "recommendations" for performance improvements based on whatever version they were running, which could have been a few versions behind what a "hardcore" or "serious sim enthusiast" might have.

While I'm at it....it WOULD be interesting to see a side-by-side comparison of 2 XBoxs connected to 2 DIFFERENT display-capable monitors/TVs.  One connected to an HDR capable display, and one connected to a non-HDR capable (SDR) display.  I think that might be very entertaining or enlightening.  Or maybe not.  😎

Edited August 3, 20214 yr by FalconAF