PMDG’s 777-300ER now in the Marketplace, 777F and 737 news

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We’ve got some news coming in from PMDG’s Robert S. Randazzo on the 777-300ER, on the 777F freighter variant and on the 737 line with upgrades and 777 features coming to the now slightly older aircraft. Here’s what we know!

The 777 comes to the marketplace, 777F into beta

A pair of good news pieces for the PMDG 777. We start with the 777-300ER which has now been available for several weeks on the PMDG website and is now joining the rest of the PMDG line-up on the MSFS Marketplace. This, crucially, also means that the aircraft is available for XBox owners for the first time.

The Marketplace variant has its livery options separated out and these will allegedly be arriving onto the marketplace by sometime next week at the latest. Although $4.99 is the lowest price currently available on the Marketplace, apparently a special deal is being worked out to reduce the price to something lower – Robert says they will be “available for a song.”

Moving on, we have news that the 777F, better known as the freighter variant of the 777, is nearly ready for beta testing and is nearing the end of development. We don’t yet know what freight specific features PMDG are building into the product but hopefully that will be revealed soon.

737 upgrades and pricing changes

We also have news about the 737 line with a new build of the aircraft that is currently on the way. The build reportedly addresses some “freezing” issues that have cropped up and will likely be released in the 3rd week of August.

A couple of new features are coming to the aircraft as well. The new navdata coding in the 777 is apparently coming to the 737 as well. Meanwhile, the tablet capabilities on the 777 are also coming to the 737 and will be implemented, tested, and rolled out one at a time rather than in one big update.

Robert reports that once they have completed this process, the 737 series will move out of their early access/early adopter pricing and pricing will return to normal. I had wondered why PMDG had implemented what seemed to be a permanent sale on their 737 aircraft and now we know. Still lots of time to take advantage of the slightly better pricing in the interim.

PMDG celebrates 27 years

Celebrating 27 years as a company, PMDG are planning to offer a three day sale starting on August 7 with 27% off all products except the recently released 777. Keep an eye out for that!

Read the full update over here!

2 responses to “PMDG’s 777-300ER now in the Marketplace, 777F and 737 news”

  1. PaperPilot Avatar
    PaperPilot

    I’m really excited for the 777-200F. I’m sure it would be a massive hit amongst virtual cargo pilots.

    I still wonder what their unannounced project is going to be. It could be a Boeing, though they have ruled out the 727 and 737 classic and it makes no sense to make a 757, 767 and 787 as BlueBird Simulations are going to make them. When it comes to Airbus it would make no sense to do the A300, A310, A319, A320, A321, A350 or A380 because they have either been done to a high degree of fidelity or they are going to be. So that leaves the A220 (if inibuilds isn’t going to make it high fidelity) A330 and A340 families, though I wonder if Fenix is going to do the latter two. PMDG could be working on making a McDonnell Douglas DC-10/MD-10 family or possibly the MD-11 (I am well aware that TFDI simulations has made theirs to a high degree of fidelity although the sound modeling is still underdeveloped when you are inside the cabin).

    I also wonder when we will see pictures of the 737 Max series, 747 family and the 777-200ER and LR. The biggest question for me is that will they ever get around to doing the 777X? I know that they are in talks with Boeing to do it, but I think we are still a way off yet from seeing a 777X from PMDG for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      I am curious to see what they have planned as well. I seem to remember but can’t find the quote that at one point PMDG had a non-Boeing project in the works and that the project was their secret project. Buuuut that may be my brain making things up.

      If anyone is going to do a 777X, I would be PMDG for sure.

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