Microsoft Flight Simulator has flown previous collection data because the quickest rising entry within the iconic sim collection.
Since its launch earlier this 12 months, Asobo Studios‘ Microsoft Flight Simulator has already raked in over 2 million virtual pilots on PC. In the series’ large 38-year historical past, this latest entry is by far the quickest rising.
For some statistics, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann launched the next information:
Players have collectively visited 72% of Earth There have been over 50,000,000 flights Players have flown over 3,500,000,000 miles, round 19 spherical journeys from Earth to The Sun.7000 gamers have visited Microsoft’s Redmond OfficeFans have watched over 9,700,000 hours of gameplay on Twitch alone
“It’s been humbling to see the positive reactions to Microsoft Flight Simulator and we feel incredibly fortunate and blessed to have such a highly engaged community that continually helps us improve the simulation with their ongoing and insightful feedback,” Jorg Neumann wrote.
“We are also so energized by the community of creators who have already embraced our SDK and developed over 500 airports, aircraft, and other add-ons in the short few months since launch. The quality of work, knowledge and passion on display from creators is an inspiration to our team every day.”
Microsoft Flight Simulator remains to be in lively post-launch improvement with new options, resembling digital actuality assist, coming to the sport within the very close to future.
Alongside its win for Best Simulation/Strategy sport at 2020’s The Game Awards, it was revealed that the sport’s console port would lastly see launch on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in Summer 2021.
Unfortunately, alongside this announcement, no Xbox One/Xbox One X model of the sport was revealed, main us to consider that the as soon as marketed conversion of Asobo Studios’ work has been scrapped in favour of a next-gen solely launch on Xbox consoles.
For extra Microsoft Flight Simulator, try our overview of the sport proper right here.
