Captain Randazzo from PMDG also mentioned yesterday that PMDG is transitioning to FSX-only development on all future projects after the 737 NGX. They are also currently undecided as to whether they will do a FS9 port of the 737 NGX as well.
Ryan from PMDG stated that they lost money on development of the MD-11 for FS9, and the market seems to have dictated that more people are buying products for FSX now.
As expected, a few diehard FS9 fans are taking the news rather hard. Most people seem to be accepting the decision, though. I think it just comes down to fear of change, when you get right down to it. A lot of people don't like the idea of having to change. I totally get that many people have invested thousands of dollars in add-ons for FS9. There is nothing that prevents you from installing FS9 and FSX on the same computer, and running either one. This way, you can keep playing all your enjoyable FS9 add-ons, and still move forward with FSX. Most computers being sold nowadays can run FSX no problemo -- you could certainly drop no more than $1000 on a system perfectly capable of doing a nice job running FSX. Asking a 6 year old computer to run FSX with 50% AI traffic enabled is ridiculous -- of course it's going to suck. Technology marches forward, and there is no reason that development should be hamstrung from taking advantage of the latest and greatest hardware and software features just to satisfy a few people who are stuck in 2004 and refuse to upgrade.
I'm sorry, but I think all these things are really just excuses designed to account for the fact that people generally don't like change, and some people in particular don't like the idea of having to change from FS9 to FSX.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now. :-)
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