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Microsoft Confirms Aces Closure

Wow, talk about devastating news. Ouch in every way possible.

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Marlin said:
Wow, talk about devastating news. Ouch in every way possible.

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no, I am quite happy at Intel.
 
Reircha also speaks of MS's commitment to the Flight Simulator Franchise. Ha!
How can you continue when you fire nearly the whole staff.
She mentions "flying games".
Ha again!
Does that mean a very dumb downed version in the future on X-Box?
 
For those of us that prefer to use the pc for gaming this is a real blow. My thoughts and good wishes go out to those people so abruptly let go. Hopefully that message from Microsofts HR was a condensed version, if not that is one Cold Hearted S.O.B. of an HR manager, who is in need of a long lay off to see how it feels. Man I need a beer....

Ol' Jarhead :friday:
 
How can a console keep up with that much data? You think the loading times of FSX are bad... LOL There would be minimalized addons too. I just don't see it as being possible, not in the same form we've been enjoying. It would have to be less involved somewhere.
 
If anything, computer gaming is getting even more popular than ever. I don't think that consoles will oust the "gaming computer" for many years.....if ever.
 
Lionheart said:
Consoles do one thing.. Run games... Nothing running in the background. That is why they are ideal for gaming....
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Yes, but he controls are so much better on a PC.

"You should expect us to continue to invest in enabling great LIVE experiences on Windows, including flying games, but we have nothing specific to announce at this time."" Quote from Richera. Does this mean that FSXI will never come?

I'm off to find a cliff to jump from :wavey:
 
Guys, it means nothing. That was a typical human resources announcement. Omit as much as possible, stay elusive and vague. Don't read too far into it. To be quite frank, I honestly doubt she even knows what the hell ACES did.
 
In the post at Avsim i related the findings from some market research , aside from a dismal showing in the 2008 sales period for "Gold" not getting into the top 20 pc games , it was really hard to miss the shelf space i saw devoted to PC games in the retail outlets was but the smallest fraction of that devoted to the three console formats.

Expert Systems used to be chipsets that did one job only and were good at it , console games are expert systems , they run games well and need much less programming to compensate for the multiple hardware setups , operating systems and all the "services" , the chip itself in a quad core costs a small fraction of the price of your computer , as well the graphics card is not all that pricy but those two elements are the balls and brains of a system , in a console the same parts are in millions of identical machines and can be as powerful as needed to run any game much cheaper than a pc and all the extra hardware , add to that no monitor to sell with a console and for far less than the cost of a computer capable of running FSX you got yourself a plug and play system .

As far as i was concerned the writing was on the wall , Bean counters count well , shelf space in stores was much reduced from the same period a year earlier and <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
deductive reasoning indicated that PC gaming was becoming part of history , its replacement was there before our eyes already , there is no reason that Saitek wont <o:p></o:p>
have control systems that plug into Xbox or whatever , i tried to find a top quality steering wheel for plugging into a pc , to replace the one i had purchased the year before that was not as easy , but boy was the selection for consoles plentiful ... the writing on the wall was the floor space , pc gaming is part of history .<o:p></o:p>
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That means i got to get up to speed on designing for Xbox , the MSDN has the toolkits .. my personal preferences are not paying the rent , games are and i need to do what people are buying , people are not buying FS products in droves , there is a further section in the Avsim post on that subject and explains why i started making all FS products available for FS9 and FSX again , there are far more copies of FS9 in circulation than FSX and its still for sale ...


One last point ... FSX did not just DIE , in fact i see that its now the responsibility of the 3PD's to keep adding to the "BASE PLATFORM" , we can do anything we like to the game , it’s our plaything and the future viability of our use of it as a SIMULATION PLATFORM is now assured , it’s no longer going to be reprogrammed into something else as was the case when FS9 became FSX , then SP1 SP2 Accell , it’s no longer a moving target , FSXI if it comes out will be a game title running on a game platform , what WE have now is a SIMULATOR , and a damm fine one at that , Phil , Paul and all the ACES that made it what it is did one fine job ironing out the bugs , MS can’t take it away from us .. it’s OURS .
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I'm very disappointed about Microsoft.
Treating valued employees like that is just very poor.
I wish i would be able to like Flight Gear as much as i like FSX...
 
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