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MSFS 2024 Release Date November 19 2024

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MSFS 2024 Release Date November 19 2024. I assume there will be a Steam release, but no word on that in the announcement I read.
 
The official trailer indicates availability on Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series S and X, and Steam (frame from 2:26 in the trailer linked below):

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More info about MSFS 2024:

It's 1:34:00 long. But it gives some nice clues about the new sim. It's going to be very complete.

From the scenery/airport developer standpoint, it's a blessing and a curse. With an additional 30 biomes, 3D trees and crops, accurate obstacles, accurate shipping traffic, reworked photogrammetry, etc... there's less to create in some respects. But the tools available appear to be greatly expanded. There's always small airfields to improve, so that will probably be the direction freeware scenery developers will go. Aircraft are going to be quite accurate it seems, and included selections expanded. Again, freeware developers may need to look into little-used aircraft for development.

I think payware developers are going to need to enter the Marketplace, if they have not already done so. The advantage is sales and promotion, as well as the weight of Microsoft's anti-piracy protection (and it's continued development).

15,000,000 is the sales number of MSFS 2020. Obviously, Microsoft is going to try to exceed that with MSFS 2024. Our little niche of a flight simulator hobby has grown.
 
I was particularly impressed by the many dynamically reacting objects. For example, the pylons that can be torn apart, or the advertising banner that is picked up by an airplane, or the hot air balloon that can be inflated. These are actually very complex things that you have to calculate, and you can't just pull them out of thin air. If these are in-house developments, i.e. physics developed by Microsoft/Asobo, then hats off to you!

In this context, Nvidia has the PhysX plug-in, and that makes me wonder whether the MSFS24 has implemented PhysX.

But anyway...

If you read and hear all this, then the MSFS24 will bring a real firework of innovations. It will be great times :))
 
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