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My hope is that FS2020 will be the basis for many more real world sims as the technology improves.

I imagine a ship, train sim would go over quite well. Would be great if they were all in the same in game session.

Can also picture tycoon and enterprise type games doing well here.

And of course eventually there will be weapons, it is bound to happen.

If you've ever flown really low in MSFS outside the specially crafted cities like SF you'll see that it's not really up for a ground level sim level of detail yet. I guess you could do with street view images what MS has down with satellite photos, but it's also exponentially more data.

>I guess you could do with street view images what MS has down with satellite photos, but it's also exponentially more data.

Unless every street in the world is scanned quarterly, or more frequently, the data would be laughably stale. That said, people would still flock to GTA World, or even GTA USA if it got made.

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