For decades for decades Microsoft Flight Simulator Franchise is associated with Microsoft's own DOS/Windows control systems and, more recent, Xbox consoles (weird exceptions such as these Macintosh port from 1986 notwithstanding). However, that era seems to end, as Sony announced during the State of Play Livestream of this evening Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Comes to PlayStation 5 on December 8.
No, that's not a typo.
Credit: Sony
No, that's not a typo.
Credit: Sony
The move is not completely shocking for Modern Microsoft, which has been publishing earlier Xbox exclusives on competitive consoles for some time. And Flight Simulator 2024 Is now available for almost a year on Xbox Series S/X, as the name suggests, so that Xbox owners get at least a “timed exclusive”.
Yet it is a bit striking to see a franchise that literally has the Microsoft brand name integrated in his title Moving to a large non-microsoft platform like this. The impact is a bit like seeing a Sonic game on a Nintendo console for the first time in 2001, after years of Sega sold itself as anti-Nintendo.
Of course, Sega had to leave Sonic, the GameConsolebedrijf completely after failure of the Dreamcast. Now another large Microsoft gamefranchise is a multiplatform, one has to wonder what the future of the Xbox even looks like a separate console.
“We run a company,” said Microsoft Phil Spencer in an interview in 2024. “[The video game industry] has been growing for a long time, and now people are looking for ways to grow. And I think we, as fans, as players of games, we just have to expect that there will be more change in how some of the traditional ways in which games are built and distributed [are] start changing … for all of us. “
