ORIGINAL: twinbrother
Some people seem to speak too much on other's behalf.
No disrespect intended, but then should this be addressed by the marketers and developers instead?
They are not around here to answer these queries, just us mere mortals.
So we end up going back and forth.
ORIGINAL: twinbrother
Microsoft's Flight Simulator franchise is one of the best selling "flight simulators" out there, and it appeals to a large market.
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You did bring this into the discussion with the comparison to games though.
That "crappy games" sell well though has little to no bearing on RC sims. These are two completely different arenas however as you point out below....
ORIGINAL: twinbrother
I guess we'll never know how well the "RC flight sim" will appeal to the mass market, since they aren't marketed for it.
That's assuming though that the companies have never considered it.
I would assume that they have at least polled and looked into it.
Indeed discussion with some of these developers has indicated that they wish they could penetrate the "mass market" but find that there is no demand.
ORIGINAL: twinbrother
And finally, there probably isn't a large number of downloads for flight sims because most people don't even know they exist.
Hmmm. I've always found the Flight Sim Libraries to be rather VAST...
You can usually arrive to them with a simple google search.
Places like
http://www.flightsim.com have a huge database of downloads as do other sites.
PC Flight sims seem to do rather well, but the military high fidelity flight sims were decimated by low "game" level pricing.
Long gone is Janes and others of their ilk.
ORIGINAL: twinbrother
Before I got into RC airplanes, I didn't know they existed. The only sim I heard of was Microsoft Flight Simulator, and that's due their marketing. Since I never picked up an RC magazine before, I never knew about them. And, in my opinion, a vast majority of the gaming world hasn't either.
Maybe...
But this is going back to the games market.
I would HOPE that the marketing people have at least considered something like what you are saying in their pricing decisions.
I don't think you are wrong at all, but all indications I've seen point to that they have considered and researched it, at least to some extent.
Wouldn't it be rather foolish for them to do otherwise?