MS Flight Simulator vs. Lockheed Martin ?

MS on myynyt lisessioikeudet Lockheed Martinille, mutta jatkaa lentosimulaattorin kehittämistä ja myyntiä.

Kuitenkin jäänyt hieman epäselväksi millaisena MS:n versio kehittyy ja mitä puolestaan Lockheed Martin tuo lisenssin oston myötä markkinoille, eli miten nämä kaksi eriytyvät toisistaan. Viimeksimanittuhan on lienee enempikin virallisella ammattipuolella toimiva.


"Lockheed Martin Prepar3D

In 2009 Lockheed Martin announced that they had negotiated with Microsoft to purchase the intellectual property (including source code) for the Microsoft ESP (Enterprise Simulation Platform) product."

(Microsoft ESP is the commercial-use version of "Flight Simulator X SP2". On May 17, 2010,[13] Lockheed announced that the new product based upon the ESP source code would be called "Prepar3D" (pronounced "Prepared")."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_flight_simulator


Lockheed Martin "Training and Simulation"

- http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/mst/training.html

"If you own a copy of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X, you might want to grab a pen, scratch the name Microsoft off the box and write Lockheed Martin instead."

"That’s because Lockheed Martin has licensed the software and the intellectual goodies that go with it, marking the end of the line for one of the most successful game series in the history of computing, spanning almost 30 years since the original in 1982, called Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0."

"This doesn’t mean Microsoft has abandoned the lucrative flight gaming market, however."

"Quite the opposite, some of the brightest minds at Microsoft Games Studios are now hard at work on a new title simply called Microsoft Flight."

- http://www.flyingmag.com/blogs/fly-wire/goodbye-flight-simulator-hello-microsoft-flight

Onko tuo alla oleva siis sama kuin FSX tai mitä mahdollisia eroja?

Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3D: http://prepar3d.com/