Flight simulator followers might discover themselves in a barely distinctive place come November when Microsoft unloads its way more superior Flight Simulator 2024 onto the world, though the model that got here in 2020 and was promised a 10-year roadmap will nonetheless very a lot be put in on a whole lot of methods.
There’ll undoubtedly be these that don’t make the leap to the brand new model for a lot of causes – price, compatibility, or PC {hardware} so what if you’re a type of individuals? Will you be left within the jet wash on the brand new shiny toy?
It appears as if you needn’t fear as Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator confirmed to FSElite in an interview final week that we will anticipate to see updates for the present sim proper up till 2028 which nearly ties in with the last decade since launch.
Microsoft is assured that almost all of mods, airports, and plane will perform if introduced into MSFS 2024 however there’s nonetheless going to be a messy overlap with firms going ahead maybe having to develop two variations of an add-on, one which takes benefit of the brand new sim and one which doesn’t. Extra possible help for MSFS 2020 might ebb away fairly shortly, though the truth that it has had 15 million pilots because it launched might shore that up a bit of. No one is strolling away from a assured consumer base for a brand-new one.
Operating two comparable merchandise alongside one another shouldn’t be one thing that usually occurs within the sport trade. If we’re speaking racing video games, issues resembling Venture Automobiles 2 fully disappeared from Steam when Venture Automobiles 3 got here out.
It’s going to be very fascinating to see how it’s dealt with – there’ll have to be a contact of sensitivity about it to keep away from some individuals’s noses getting out of becoming a member of.
Within the meantime, if you’re trying to enhance your cockpit forward of taking part in Flight Simulator 2024 chances are you’ll need to take a look at the brand new Flight Simulator Pro Military Edition from Next Level Racing that not too long ago launched.