Looking at & reading about Flight so far I wonder why MSoft are not releasing this on the xbox and android & apple apps?

It seems to me that the target audience for Flight are gamers - but gamers are not found playing games on their PC that much these days - more often games consoles and tablets/phones ..

By making it for the PC surely they are inviting the long established Flight Simulator users to compare it and ..... now look at the backlash!!

It's not so much to do with what Flight can offer, but more that the ability of getting a fully fledged game of that magnitude onto a console or mobile just isn't there. For xbox it would either require using a lot of discs, or downloading it; and I don't know many people who have the 120 or 250gb version. Plus, the game would be too complex for an Xbox controller... You'd really need a keyboard too just to be able to do everything.

X-plane exists for android and iOS, they'd have to try and fit it onto their windows phone and I know of nobody that is buying those.


Want an 'xbox' flight simulator? Plug in your xbox controller and use it as a joystick

Cessnaporsche01 wrote on Jan 11^th, 2012 at 10:03am:

What makes you think there aren't simulation physics in the final release? Where did you hear about there being such limited controls?

The game will still have the full world, but you just purchase the land that you want. It saves you from spending the full price of a game on getting elements that you don't want to use.


I'm not sure about the Windows 8 and Xbox bit though. I know that the December update of the Xbox dashboard made it look like Windows 8, but I thought that was just about it. I know people are fussing about Flight, but I am fussing about Windows 8... It's just an annoying layout.

alrot wrote on Jan 11^th, 2012 at 10:31am:

I've played the beta, and the people at CES have played the beta... But I haven't seen much in the way of final release details.

I'm not betting on anything, I just dislike speculation. A lot of people are getting angry over what they have 'heard', but barely anything is official.

I think you statement about gamers not using PC's is very misinformed.
I am not a PC gamer apart from FSX (which isn't a game) but you'll find the majority of hardcore gamers are using PCs for Battlefield 3, COD, WOW etc

I mostly fly around the Pacific Seaboard of the USA so purchasing that highly detailed? area for a nominal sum would be acceptable to me.

The additional expense and complication would arise during on-line, Multiplayer Sessions, where each player may decide to use a different part of the World for the flight!

We would then have to purchase the "whole World" scenery files, to cater for that eventuality!

That's when it may become overly expensive!

Paul.

For my scenery, I use:

REX for FS 2004.
GE Pro for FS 2004.
FS Global SE for FS 2004.
VOZ 1.8 for FS 2004 (Free equivalent to Orbx for FS 2004).

...and each one covers the whole World, with one purchase!... ...!

The various SRTM Meshes covering the whole World for FS 2004 are free from Simviation! http://simviation.com/1/fs2004terrainmesh

I'm still eager to try-out "Flight", but I suspect I will still be using FS 2004 for all my "serious?" flights... ...including; Multiplayer!

Paul.... ....!