MSFS is no longer!

NEWS - Gamasutra reported yesterday that ACES Studio, the company behind Flight Simulator and Train Simulator franchises has been impacted severely by the 5,000 cuts (1,400 immediate yesterday) that Microsoft announced yesterday. According to the article, a "large portion" of the development studios staff have been laid off including the entire Flight Simulator development team. I'm a little shocked at the amount of cleaving to one of Microsoft's all-time best titles (Flight Simulator), but its possible they decided that after Flight Sim X (which came out in 2006) that it was time to move on. This is the second batch of Microsoft layoffs from a highly-visible game-related division from yesterday's announcement.

Just read the same thing, wow, talk about a downer. Sad thing is, the small company of 85 people I work for will be laying off about 15 today....

Here is the article that Jerry mentioned -> <a href="www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21981" target="_blank">Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
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I don't think that Microsoft has killed off MSFS just yet. They must have some other plans for the flight simmer crowd. Technology evolves.

Guess ther is no rush for me to buy FSX....way it looks I have plenty of time...

Well at least in a few years people wont be complaining that the latest Flight Sim is too hard on there hardware!! The only thing is that perhaps some other company will see gap in the market and snatch up the old developers from MS, I wouldn't lose all hope just yet!