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Microsoft Flight Simulator dev hasn't ruled out an Xbox One port
- Thread starter Theorry
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It can work but is it worth the effort considering it will probably come later than Series version and will be significantly worse.
Flight Simulator the Telltale Game
An adventure game about being the copilot
Flight Sim is cool but not a console seller
An adventure game about being the copilot
Flight Sim is cool but not a console seller
I think they are working on it, it's just behind a iOS accessible web app and a windows 10 app on their priority list. They are probably planning on both upgrading the cloud servers and releasing an Xbox one app when they stop making cross gen games.
Godspeed to them if they want to try, but it just doesn't seem like a good use of their resources.
Seems like a waste of resource. I thought it would be a good selling point for the XSX (see my posting history), when someone asks for a short list of next gen Xbox exclusives.
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Yeah of course. I guess I just mean, why put in the work to release a port that'd presumably come out sometime in 2022 when you can focus on something else
I don't know about that, it's niche sure, but there is absolutely an audience that would buy a $500 console for Flight Sim.
That quote isnt exactly a ringing endorsement for an Xbox One version actually being made.
A flight sim with a controller? Can this game be played like that? I thought it was made for hotas.
That audience would probably get it on pc and use the 500$ to improve their setups or buy more planes, airports or specialized controllers and accessories to play it with
The HDD is fine. You don't need an SSD to run Flight Sim. It only requires an SSD for it's ultra settings, which obviously a console wouldn't be running. I play it with an HDD.
It's the CPU and the RAM most likely.
I usually play with a HOTAS but tried recently with a controller and it worked really nicely, good for casual flying/sightseeing.
I mean, the Xbox is $500, a PC to play Flight Sim would cost twice as much?
Flight Sims were pc centric for a long time. Any enthusiast of the genre most likely got a pretty decent rig for quite some time. Flight Sim isnt really the kind of game someone outside of the scene would want to buy an entire console for on a whim
Game plays great with a controller. I have a HOTAS but 95% of the time that I play I choose to play with controller instead.
Works totally fine. Super easy to pick up and play. They nailed translating all of the controls to a controller.
They're waiting for XSX/XSS server blades to be deployed. Otherwise they'll be streaming from an XB1 to an XB1...
From the quote, it definitely sounds like they mean an xCloud streaming version rather than making a native Xbox One version (which would probably just never happen).
'Console seller' doesn't necessarily mean something that moves 10 million hardware units.
For the niche audience, it's a console seller. Certainly my most anticipated game of 2021 by far, across all three mainline consoles.
By that logic any game that drives anyone to buy a console is a "console seller"
We all know how the term is usually used and flight sim doesn't fit it so i fail to see how it would be dumb to have it playable on x1 instead of "using it to drive series s/x sales"
It should probably run quite decently if you've got the new M1 Mac mini. Much worse on the older models
i'd love to see a high fps accurate flight sim model in that kind of visual environment.
That answer was about as non-committal as it gets, lol. It's not coming to Xbox One unless xCloud access does first - which Neumann even kinda obliquely alludes to. He even says they aren't going to so much as look at the possibility until the Series S|X version ships, when we'll be 10 months into the next console generation... and they are going to waste resources on a previous-gen port at that point? The fuck outta here.
There's just no way to run that game on a Jaguar CPU with DDR3 RAM. And if you managed to pull it off, the tradeoffs to do so would result in a game that was so hideous and dumbed down that no one would bother anyway.
I assume this answer is a version of "we have nothing to announce at this time", where Neumann isn't really authorized to make any declarations on anything beyond what they are currently working on, one way or another.
There's just no way to run that game on a Jaguar CPU with DDR3 RAM. And if you managed to pull it off, the tradeoffs to do so would result in a game that was so hideous and dumbed down that no one would bother anyway.
I assume this answer is a version of "we have nothing to announce at this time", where Neumann isn't really authorized to make any declarations on anything beyond what they are currently working on, one way or another.
Cant imagine a flight sim being played through a streaming service being a pleasant experience.
Flight Sim is super slow. A good amount of the time you're sat there not even touching the controls. A lot of PC players just play it at 30fps (because of the requirements for 60fps) and it's largely considered 'fine' to be played at 30fps compared to faster games.
It's exactly the type of game that would feel completely normal played through streaming imo. If MS felt comfortable enough to show off Halo 5 and Gears multiplayer as a test case for cloud streaming then Flight Sim should be a no brainer.
I've been using an Xbox controller for years on PC flight sims.
Then you know nothing of the simulator community, they been preaching that 15-23 FPS smoothness forever.
Yeah, even hardcore framerate enthusiasts agree that playing a "pure" flight sim (not a combat sim) is OK at 20~30fps. Obviously they're not like "woo-hoo cinematic experience!" and would prefer higher framerates, but historically flight sims have always run at 15~30fps on most setups for various reasons, and players could deal with that due to how "slow" the gameplay is.
As long as a roughly 30fps is held, it's totally playable even for enthusiasts.
