Yeah, but when's it gonna ship?
A statement made during our announcement at CES about the team having over a year remaining have generated a few questions in the Flight Simulator communities about when we're gonna ship.
So when are we gonna ship?
The FSInsider site reports in our official F.A.Q. that "We are working hard to deliver “Flight Simulator X” in the holiday 2006 timeframe."
And we are.
Holiday 2006.
What does that mean?
Well, as they say, past performance is no guarantee of future gain, but here are a few titles ACES games studios have released that were shipped in the "holiday" timeframe. If you purchased any of them, you might remember when they started to appear on the shelves.
Combat Flight Simulator 1 --- holiday '98-- October 7 1998
Flight Simulator 2000 --- holiday '99-- September 29, 1999
Combat Flight Simulator 2 --- holiday '00-- September 20, 2000
Flight Simulator 2002 --- holiday '01-- September 24, 2001
What does "released" mean? Wikipedia has a good description of software development cycles here, which includes a generally accurate definition of release.
Which pretty much means, there's a ways to go, but less than a year from our point of view...
