Flight Simulator will use Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure to host and deliver graphical data as players need it, but also to support the game’s multiplayer systems.
That includes virtual pilots and live air traffic from around the world When developer Asobo Studio described Microsoft Flight Simulator last year I half expected the game’s ambitious feature set to be pared back before release.
There’s no release date yet for Microsoft Flight Simulator, but the game is expected for both Windows PC and Xbox One, and will be included in the Xbox Game Pass program.
It will bring together “all the pilots on the planet,” Wloch says — both real and virtual — in the same experience.