Microsoft apparently reported 10,000,000 users. Using conservative guesstimates and not including other income what kind of real plane would $250,000,000 buy?

Edit: I just checked. The Cessna Longitude is about U$30M. The TBM 960 is about U$5M.  With $250M Microsoft can buy the real plane and use the exact specs and measurements to base a near perfect MSFS version of the real plane. 

Edited December 7, 20223 yr by bofhlusr

A lot of these numbers come from the Gamepass which the cost is nowhere near the 50$.

Hah, fun thought. Given that Microsoft annual revenue in 2022 (their financial year is not the same as the calendar year) was 198 Billion, with net profit at 72 Billion, I think it's safe to say they can buy any commercially available plane if they wanted to. An Airbus A380 list price is ~450 million. They could buy 140 A380s and still have some money left over!!

The big tech companies really are something else when it comes to $$$ 

43 minutes ago, bofhlusr said:

Microsoft apparently reported 10,000,000 users. Using conservative guesstimates and not including other income what kind of real plane would $250,000,000 buy?

Many millions of those users haven't spent $50

It would get you a 747 Dreamliner, or alternatively, $250 million would buy you about half of an A380  😄

Or a 1/8 share of a B1 Bomber if you could actually buy one.

Edited December 7, 20223 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

2 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

$250 million would buy you about half of an A380  😄

It would buy you a toilet seat on an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate.  heh.

Decommissioned in the US. Interestingly the Ukraine had been considering buying some of those decommissioned ones (unsuccessfully) in order to replace their original Soviet era naval fleet which had been seized by Russia illegally as part of the Crimean annexure.

Edited December 7, 20223 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

1 minute ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Decommissioned in the US. Interestingly the Ukraine had been trying to buy some of those decommissioned ones (unsuccessfully) in order to replace their original naval fleet which had been seized by Russia as part of the Crimean annexure.

Source? We have been buying new ones 

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/turkey-launches-300-foot-warship-for-ukraine-wont-arrive-until-2024

6 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Decommissioned in the US. 

Yes, I know.  But that's a reference to a scandal back in the 80's over the Perry class frigate's fittings having really high contractor charges.

29 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Source? We have been buying new ones 

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/turkey-launches-300-foot-warship-for-ukraine-wont-arrive-until-2024

It was a while ago, pre-covid maybe 2018?  . They, probably sensibly, eventually declined the offer. 

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24342/u-s-to-offer-surplus-oliver-hazard-perry-frigates-to-ukraine-reports

The way inflation's going, this time next year you'll be able to buy a share in a C152 with that.

2 hours ago, Mace said:

Many millions of those users haven't spent $50

This is true. However, while the Avsim community is tiny in relation to the overall flight sim community, most users here on Avsim have probably spent 10 times that. When considering the “total industry”, maybe 100 times that… especially when you factor in the hardware costs…. All those RTX cards, CPU’s, flight controllers etc that have been bought specifically for this hobby and no other reason. Flight simming is a big-bucks industry in itself.

Edited December 8, 20223 yr by RaptyrOne

3 hours ago, bofhlusr said:

Microsoft can buy the real plane and use the exact specs and measurements to base a near perfect MSFS version of the real plane. 

Or... You could just get the data from the manufacturer for a helluva lot less than the cost of purchasing a plane you're never going to operate.  For free, probably.

And how much for charity? 50 bucks?

The weird things people focus on.

My priorities

1. Am I having fun flying?

2. See question #1