It looks like Microsoft’s latest entry for its long-running Flight Simulator series is taking off well. Microsoft has annnounced that Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) has more than one million unique players since launch.
The game is also the biggest launch seen on Xbox Game Pass For PC, and the biggest launch for the series ever.
These numbers were taken in the period of two weeks after launch. It may not be as big, but for a relatively niche title, one million sounds huge. Players have flown more than 26 million flights and more than a billion miles flown during this period of time.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) lets players fly around the world. And yes, that whole world is available thanks to the power of the Azure cloud and Bing Maps (of all things). That 100+GB of download serves as one of the most beautiful open world in a video game seen this year so far, and a decent flight sim to boot.
So far, the game features a handful of planes and hand-crafted airports, and Microsoft is committing with release of more updates and DLC.
Source: Xbox Wire