The beloved simulator collection marks a big milestone

FIFA, Name of Responsibility, one more rerelease of Skyrim — there are many video games on the market that get new variations like clockwork, making them a number of the staples of the gaming business. One collection with much less intercourse enchantment, however actually a devoted cult following, is Microsoft‘s Flight Simulator. Whereas these video games’ releases are considerably quiet within the grand scheme of the gaming business, the primary entry within the collection was launched all the best way again in 1982, and there have been a complete of fifteen Flight Simulator titles since. That has to make it one of many longest-running sport collection ever.

The newest Flight Simulator got here out in 2020, and was met with practically unanimously glowing opinions. It even claimed the spot because the third finest sport of its launch 12 months, simply after Half-Life: Alyx and Hades. The sport was praised particularly for its visible fashion, easy controls, and accessibility choices.

Microsoft launched a press release this morning that “10 million pilots have loved the wonder, awe, and marvel of the world accessible in Microsoft Flight Simulator throughout Home windows/PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Xbox console.” The put up doesn’t specify whether or not this quantity is in refierence to the collection’ most up-to-date launch or an all-time cumulative quantity, however I’ve to imagine it’s the latter. Regardless, that also makes the franchise an enormous success, and it’s clearly beloved by aviation fans in every single place.

The put up additionally shared different spectacular stats breaking down the collection’ wealthy historical past by numbers:

• 500 million flights
• 40 billion miles flown
• Equal of 10 million journeys across the Earth
• Equal of 200 spherical journeys from the Earth to the Solar

November 11 of this 12 months was really the fortieth anniversary of the collection, and to have fun, Microsoft launched a particular anniversary version of the 2020 Flight Simulator sport. That version together with an entire host of recent historic plane and airports, in addition to new missions for gamers to partake in.