The best experience requires an internet connection, streaming all that data to your console in real-time, otherwise impossible via a one-time installation. It makes every journey memorable, leveraging artificial intelligence to stitch satellite imagery and various geospatial data into one realized world. Precision and attention to detail at this scale never fail to amaze, leaving it only natural to wonder what the technology holds long-term.
It delivers an evolutional step in the genre, with the same global cloud-powered sandbox now adapted for the living room. Microsoft Flight Simulator's most remarkable accomplishments on Xbox consoles mirror its PC release from 2020. It gives these latest consoles an innate advantage over the previous generation, helping justify that exclusivity. Various advancements present in the new Xbox consoles are especially beneficial for a title like Microsoft Flight Simulator, as a notoriously CPU-bound PC release best served with solid-state drive (SSD) storage. Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the rare true "next-gen" experiences for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, as the platform holder's first title skipping the Xbox One series of consoles. Microsoft Flight Simulator for Xbox: What you'll like While the game remains largely identical to its acclaimed PC release, the focus shifts to whether performance is up to scratch on console, and changes made in the process. I've spent a few days on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator via a preview build provided by Microsoft.