FSLabs nears completion of its Concorde for P3D – MSFS simmers, here’s why you should care.

https://msfsaddons.com/2023/05/19/fslabs-nears-completion-of-its-concorde-for-p3d-msfs-simmers-heres-why-you-should-care/

15 minutes ago, The Flight Level said:

FSLabs nears completion of its Concorde for P3D – MSFS simmers, here’s why you should care.

https://msfsaddons.com/2023/05/19/fslabs-nears-completion-of-its-concorde-for-p3d-msfs-simmers-heres-why-you-should-care/

I am skeptical how this will sell for P3D, since a lot of hobbyist simmers have left P3D for MSFS. Fortunately for FSLabs, no other company is making a study level Concorde for MSFS, so FSLabs has that market cornered for themselves in MSFS.

Edited May 19, 20233 yr by abrams_tank

Aim a total fan of FSL since their inception and their superb work in P3D , I Switched to MSFS because P3D just cannot compete with MSFS visually , but don't understand why they haven't brought their Voodoo to MSFS, it saddens me 

Yeah they said in May 2022 (!) that it's 6 to 8 weeks from beta... so perhaps in 2024 it might release for P3D and subsequently in 2027 for MSFS.

They did say that work is ongoing on the A330 series for MSFS. No specific data was given, just that it will be an A330.

6 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

I am skeptical how this will sell for P3D, since a lot of hobbyist simmers have left P3D for MSFS.

Maybe they will sell 100 or so copies.....😉

Edited May 20, 20233 yr by Bobsk8

I’m also skeptical that 1) this is actually close to P3D release, 2) they’ll sell more than a small number of copies for P3D, and 3) that we’ll see this in MSFS in the next couple of years.

That all being said, I genuinely love the stuff about how they’re recreating the kind of paper charts crews would have used, virtually. This is great, this is something new! It’s exactly this kind of innovation in simming that I wish we’d see more of from the big developers, in whichever sim.

If this makes it to MSFS before the heat death of the universe, I’ll buy it!

James

At least it will put a smile on the face of  @Ray Proudfoot

24 minutes ago, sonny147 said:

At least it will put a smile on the face of  @Ray Proudfoot

Not until it’s available for purchase.

I can only assume that there are some development aspects required by Concorde which MSFS cannot yet do?  Otherwise it has to rank amongst the dumbest strategic decisions in flightsim.  P3D?  Now?  Really?

6 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Maybe they will sell 100 or so copies.....😉

I'm thinking that number of copies sold for P3D will reach 4-digit numbers, but I wouldn't want to guess the first digit 😉

 

24 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Not until it’s available for purchase.

But when it has been released I hope that you will try the current version of MSFS….😎 

Just now, GSalden said:

But when it has been released I hope that you will try the current version of MSFS….😎 

Negative.

1 hour ago, ErichB said:

I can only assume that there are some development aspects required by Concorde which MSFS cannot yet do?  Otherwise it has to rank amongst the dumbest strategic decisions in flightsim.  P3D?  Now?  Really?

I guess FSLabs was targeting P3D for the longest time, including when they announced the Concorde back in 2020.

IMO though, the mistake that FSLabs made was underestimating how MSFS would disrupt the P3D market, and FSLabs assuming that the P3D market would still be there when the Concorde came out for P3D.

I would really love to be a fly on the wall inside FSLabs in the first few months of the Concorde's release for P3D.  There is a possibility that FSLabs may lose money on the Concorde for P3D, because a lot of P3D users have migrated to MSFS.  In addition, because FSLabs also announced the Concorde for MSFS, the P3D users that moved to MSFS may just wait it out for the Concorde on MSFS.  For these reasons that I mentioned, I think FSLabs may not make a profit on the Concorde for P3D. To be honest, I think FSLabs would be lucky to break even on the Concorde for P3D.

However, if FSLabs planned their architecture and code properly though for the release of the Concorde on MSFS, I think whatever loss they make on the Concorde for P3D can be gained back from their Concorde sales on MSFS.

Edited May 20, 20233 yr by abrams_tank

1 hour ago, abrams_tank said:

However, if FSLabs planned their architecture and code properly though for the release of the Concorde on MSFS, I think whatever loss they make on the Concorde for P3D can be gained back from their Concorde sales on MSFS.

For them, I hope so.