Exactly. I guess im 7.8% as well. As if i fly anything bigger than the longitude, the performance drops off the table. And im not flying the A330 at 18 fps in VR.
The annual Navigraph survey is interesting (we on the MSFS team carefully read the results every year, and many of us also complete the survey ourselves), but as many other people have already noted in this thread, it’s very important not to misinterpret the data and assume this is a representative sample of the entire MSFS playerbase.
For example, another result from this survey is that only 1.7% of respondents use an Xbox console for flight simming, a figure which isn’t anywhere close to the actual number according to our telemetry data (and also validated by Marketplace sales numbers shared by some third-party developers who sell add-on products for both PC and Xbox).
I think it’s fair to say that with a sample size of 23,000+ respondents this survey does indeed give a decently accurate depiction of one very specific type of flight simmer: PC-based users who predominantly fly airliners. That, of course, does not encompass all flight simmers.
Its representative of Navigraph users. Thats all it is. Breaking down those numbers to extrapolate all AND just MSFS users is nothing but fictitious manipulation and proposerous speculation.
I took the survey and if memory serves me well that question allowed multiple answers. For my use case, I ticked narrow bodied airliners, GA planes, warbirds and gliders.
This means, that the sum of all all answers is not 100% but much higher, maybe 200% or even more.
Assuming the above theory is correct, 92% for Airliners would mean 92% of respondents sometimes fly (or maybe only once flew) airlines…
It may not even be representative of all Navigraph users - it’s only representative of the group who filled in the survey. We don’t know for sure how representative that subset is of the complete user group.
Three men were riding on a train in the country and saw a black sheep.
First man said, the sheep here are black.
Second man said, no , we only know that particular sheep is black .
Third man said, we only know that particular sheep is black on this side.
And so it goes
Did they publish any such data before 2024 was released? I seem to have a vague idea, about how a majority of MSFS 2020 users were on Xbox, but I wouldn’t be able to point to any source for that. Have the numbers been officially revealed?
Or maybe because its none of our business. And doesn’t effect the sim play. I havent touched 2020 in 2 months. Play what you like. Doesnt matter to me.
Thanks. I have no need for 3rd party charts, but at least now I know who provided the data. Adobe gets even better data from their “telemetry” but they don’t share it. They can tell who flew what, where, and for how long. It’s too bad they don’t allow access to this data for developer planning purposes.
