They could, probably had it working but someone in a suit said not enough people have it to warrant supporting it. Console games and making everything simpo is the wave of the future.

To beg for them to add it is silly, they are not making this for SIMMERS.

I think it's because they're trying to get PC Kinect to catch on, too. I see no reason why the system couldn't support either, or both.

It'll come eventually.

No trackir would be very, very disappointing.



It's still open
http://innovation.connect.microsoft.com/FlightBetaDiscussion/discussions

Or email them, I don't remember their email by the way.



Kinect is too expensive and no way people are gonna buy it just for Flight. I hope they are not that stupid to drop their support to TrackIR.

you can email them here:
msflight@microsoft.com

Well, no, they probably wouldn't buy Kinect for Flight, per se (some would... after all, some started buying TrackIR's back in the day.) But have you heard of Windows 8? That's the reason they want to pimp Kinect PC. Flight would be a happy beneficiary of the tech.

I hope that we see some sort of freetrack support also.

By not including TRackIR from the start, M$ made a hugh mistake. They made another one by making M$ Flight a sort of arcade game instead of a sim. Imho that is. I don't care if it's included or not. I'm not interrested in M$ Flight. Period!

Thank you for correcting me Seth. I tried to point out the possibility of why Flight might not have TrackIR support (which is annoyoing for all of us that have one [or more] TrackIR units about). As I said, using your interface is exceedingly easy - so technical reasons are really no excuse for Microsoft.

I hope I also made it clear that my understanding of the situation with the Eagle Dynamics series was only based on what was posted in the ED forums and I was extrapolating from A (the DCS situation in the past, according to their forums) to a possible reason for B (MS Flight). As you know, the community has a long memory of what goes on, even if things (eg. Naturalpoint's position) are now different with regard to exclusivity.

Fortunately we are now blessed with TrackIR 64-bit support, even if ED has not re-started work implementing an alternative tracking interface. It would be very nice if you could clarify whether they are still prohibited from doing so by their agreement with Naturalpoint (so we can ask for this work to be resumed), but it is fair enough if you refrain from commenting.

I went to the Flight Website and after logging in and checking every tab for somewhere to make a comment I ended up on the Xbox Live page and made an entry on the forum there with Attn to Flight Devs, probably not going to be noticed but we'll see.

e-mail sent!

Gotta go wash my nose off now...