New microsoft flight simulator announced at e3!!!

[William]

A new Microsoft Flight Simulator was announced at E3.
Finally a proper replacement for the aging, ill-performing program that is Flight Simulator X.

Here is the trailer. Looks like it has great graphics, which is one of FSX's major failing points these days IMO.

https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1137...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[paiken]

IF it ever gets to retail and IF it looks like that out of the box then I think I'll have to wait for someone else to try it first to make sure it isn't all smoke and mirrors (remember FSX when it was first released?). Then I'll probably get it. The Xbox users making all of the comments aren't going to be happy since the announcement clearly states that this is for PC, not for Xbox.

[Penzoil3]

venturebeat.com/2019/06/09/microsoft-flight-simulator-returns-with-breathtaking-realism/

Clearly states it is both

[wombat666]

Hope they don't make a hash of it this time if it is to be for Xbox as well as the one true faith.
Great graphics will be welcome provided they run on a reasonable spec PC and not just on a Cray.

[zswobbie1]

You never know, it could be cloud based & subscription, seeing it will be released on XBox as well.

[gray eagle]

Saw on flightsim forum discussion about new flt sim and an interesting comment about it:

"It is for XBox AND Windows 10, not any other PC. Bye bye to previous Windows OS...

It will use Microsoft Azure Cloud, suggesting that `paying` starts at every log-in and it will be a closed system, NOT open source.
We will not be installing this on our hard drives, I suspect...

At this point more questions than answers."

If that be the case then I'm not interested.......