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Originally Posted by zapatista
your off on your own tangent there, i never mentioned falcon and it has nothing to do with what we were discussing
for microsoft it is easy, and good business practice at he moment, to put some non priority projects back on the shelf and cut the money it spends on them during "the economic crisis". its also very easy for them to revive it later should they choose to. ms flightsim still has a lot of legs in it, since only the latest hardware can at long last run fs-x fluidly with decent scenery on a high resolution, so it is not as if an imminent upgrade was/is needed.
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The main issue with Microsoft from how I see it, is twofold: first they have all but abandoned the PC games market, despite occasional claims of the contrary. Second is the classic ROI problem: even if their flight sim line is profitable, it binds too much capital for a substantial time. And of course it's a niche market that is only getting smaller, so there's not much growth potential. Stockholders don't like that. I don't see that changing in the near future either so I guess they are out of that market for good.
Which does of course open opportunities for other develoeprs. I appreciate that Oleg is going against these trends, even though I assume SOW won't be "perfect" on release. Feel free to prove me wrong though
07-24-2010, 06:53 PM
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