Microsoft has reported on the success of Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project has already attracted more than 1 million players — this is the best start in the entire 38-year history of the series. However, record numbers will not necessarily correlate with sales.In its blog, the company announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator showed the best start among all games for Xbox Games Pass on PC.
Now the version of the service for this platform is at the beta stage, and its library will eventually be replenished with new and classic titles.
Microsoft also shared the first statistics:
- since the release, players have made more than 26 million flights;also, gamers have already flown more than 1 billion miles — this is equivalent to 40 thousand round-the-world flights;
- the figure of 1 million unique players also looks impressive.
- However, it is unknown how many users actually bought the game, and did not try it by subscription.Microsoft Flight Simulator was released on August 18 and was available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers on the day of release.
The average score of the game on Metacritic was 92 points based on 58 reviews from critics. At the same time, users rated the flight simulator by 7.1 points.
Microsoft plans to support the game for a long time. The company intends to update and improve the world map, refine the simulation of aircraft control, as well as release several thematic DLC.
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