4000x more detail, new Career mode, and SO much more [Video]

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is shaping up to be an incredible experience, where the game is a complete overhaul and upgrade of Flight Simulator 2020: but it’s so, so much bigger. Check it out:

One of the biggest changes that Flight Simulator 2024 delivers is that the game’s computing has been shifted from your PC, to the cloud. There are massive amounts of data — 2,500,000GB of aerial data to be precise — that will be streamed from the cloud and onto your PC in real-time.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 used a hybrid structure that streamed data from the cloud, but also used the local compute resources (PC or Xbox Series X/S) as well, this meant that downloads to your system were up to 500GB, which is a huge cry from the much, much smaller 23GB install for Flight Simulator 2024. That doesn’t mean you’re going to lose detail, in fact there is 4000x more detail …