by Mike Roque
According to an announcement posted on the official MSTS site:
"Following the successful release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, the Aces Studio is using the same technology to develop a new version of Microsoft Train Simulator. Unrelated to our previous Train Simulator development efforts, this version will be an all-new product built on the Flight Simulator X platform, the culmination of 25 years of product development and technology."What's exciting here is that it will be built on the Flight Simulator platform. I had recently thought about why they have two different platforms for what is essentially the same sort of 3D simulation. Perhaps this merge will help keep train simulator's development moving along as fast as Flight Simulator's.