

PMDG has never said it would take this route, but the expectation was still there. That said, this move by PMDG has still sparked some controversy among some in the community due to them wishing there was some discount put in place for those who at least own the -700 and want to “upgrade” to the -800. After all, even airlines pick one model over the other for the sake of economics. So there’s no definitive reason to own each of them aside from completionism.

Again, these are all essentially slightly altered versions of the same airframe, but this is the case in the real world too.

Here, everyone gets to decide which “flavor” of the 737 best suites them and can choose to just stick to only that without fuss.
