It's Never Too Late
I often see posts where users are wondering if it's too late to submit wishlists for FSX. Although my title for this post implies it's not too late, in all honesty it is too late to include major NEW features in FSX. Interestingly many of the wishlists we see include features we are building, so in the end many of you will be very happy.
It's never too late because we will do a lot of tuning and bug fixing as we push through the end game and many requests have as much to do with tuning and bugs as anything. So keep the feedback coming for FSX.
Just as importantly, I am actively working on Flight Simulator design post FSX out five or so years from now. Obviously I can't tell you what we MAY do, or when we MAY release anything, but the work is moving forward and we will iterate and think and iterate some more until we get it right.
Here is the HUGE caveat: The business world can change rapidly and all of the work I am doing now for our future may never see the light of day. IF FSX doesn't sell well, or meet our very high expectations, then who knows where we could end up.
I personally believe that our active community and some of the new thought about how and what we do going forward will be huge for the franchise and nothing but greatness is ahead for all of us.