Microsoft Lays Off Entire Flight Sim Team

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 23, 2009 @08:55PM from the throttling-back dept.

Dutch Gun writes "Microsoft has just laid off the entire Flight Simulator development team. This continues a long-running trend of terminating or severing relationships with game development studios, such as the Bungie split, FASA, or the closure of Ensemble Studios. While one would presume that core Xbox development is not currently in jeopardy after Microsoft spent up to a billion dollars to pay for Xbox 360 repairs and salvage its reputation with gamers, does this signal a reversal from Microsoft's recent focus on internal game development? And what are its plans for Flight Simulator, a twenty-seven-year product with an extremely loyal user-base and a multitude of externally developed add-ons?"

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Re:Good memories... by El+Lobo · 2009-01-23 21:59 · Score: 1, Redundant

This is one of the many things of MS that are actually good.
There. Fixed that for ya.

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