I was following this and I wanted it, but oh well, now it's too late.
This blows bad. Will 3dtrain stuff still make add-ons?
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Here I go again.
A 'real' flight simulator does everything but pull real G and deliver real ordnance. It costs several megabucks.
A 'real' train simulator has a complete cab, with all the fittings, and flat screens where all the windows are. The instruments and controls are exact, 1:1 scale replicas of the ones on the loco sitting on the ready track. It, too, costs several megabucks.
No program that's designed to run on a PC with one flat screen and a joystick is going to be on the same world with the above, never mind in the same league.
I suspect that Microsoft's management decided that this isn't the time to use finite resources to satisfy niche markets. While I haven't heard about massive layoffs there, I'm willing to wager that the main focus is on producing things that will sell immediately, for enough to cover their development costs. Oddball aps that fall under the heading of luxury products don't meet that standard.
Don't you hate it when reality intrudes on the dream world?
Chuck.
If there is one thing businesses know how to do to keep alive, it is to follow money trails. Money to develop new directions to keep them vital and competitive, and money from sales for recapitalizations and general cash flow for operations. In this case, the decision obviously was to go for the surest bets to keep risks low, and to ensure cash flow. The larger revenue-yielding measures are going to get the nods these days, while the small maket of train-sims retailing for a few tens of dollars just doesn't measure up.
the new microsoft train simulator -----microsoft train simulator 2 due out this holliday 2009 will no longer be developed as microsoft are working on other projects/programs the latest can be found at www.tsinsider.com.what are your thoughts on this subject?please post them .
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