Phil Spencer ‘thought there was no f***ing way’ Flight Sim was running in real-time

From VGC: "Microsoft Flight Simulator head Jorg Neumann has revealed how gaming boss Phil Spencer reacted when he saw the latest Xbox and PC sim for the first time, proclaiming that there was “no fucking way” it was running in real-time.

Speaking to VGC as part of a forthcoming interview, Neumann said he could tell by Spencer’s reaction that his project had potential, because “none of the guys in that room were simmers, and they all felt something.”

[LordoftheCritics]

It's a stunning sim.

[ClayRules2012]

Agreed.

[just_looken]

I tired it on pc was shocked my tiny town of 20k was ingame and i landed at the airport.

Maybe we will get to a point that the cities we land on are active like gta could you imagine all these sims going together into one big simulation game.

The players will be doing there own simulation from police to farmers to mud runner players.

[LordoftheCritics]

It was hugely satisflying to places i've never seen before.

[just_looken]

@lord

right so amazing shocking also that the media has not made it out to be a training tool or some bs.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Microsoft games are the master of simulation games tbh.

[MajorLazer]

What simulation games do they make? Flight sim is made by Asobo studio.

[DOMination-]

Gears

[EazyC]

Halo, Sea of Thieves and Crackdown are all quality simulators

[MajorLazer]

On what earth are any of those simulators? At a massive stretch you could maybe argue for Sea of Thieves but that's it.

[Si-Fly]

When it comes to aviation perhaps, but when it comes to racing certainly not with the likes of iRacing, RF2, ACC and AMS2.

[anast]

It's a flight sim...what an amazing feet...

[EazyC]

Feat, for fuck's sake. Feat.

[anast]

Yeah, you are right. I typed feet instead of feat. I bet you still understood.

"FFS" The issue is that I can correct my mistake (not an error) going forward, but you probably can't correct your necessity to solve mundane and inconsequential problems.

[Father__Merrin]

Reminds me of f16 falcon looks good in the air but on ground doesn't look that good especially the generated terrain

[Gamesual1]

One of the best looking games and an incredible sim.

[thesoftware730]

The game looks amazing, my son plays it on pc with a 2060 super and sometimes it looks real.

[ClayRules2012]

Yeah, my older brother plays it as well and 🤯is my mind blown at times, not just from the environments (when in the sky) but also when in that cockpit view…

A beauty.

[YourMommySpoils]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee. look everybody, I can fly.

[DrDoomer]

lol, slow news day for xbox?

[Orchard]

It is an insanely good-looking game, but I couldn't really get into it. Too impatient for most simulators to be honest, takes too long to learn everything and for it to become more fun than work.

That's not to say its a bad game - I totally get why people are into this and there's a hugely dedicated fanbase for MSFS.

[Crows90]

Simulators are so niche they're almost a hobby apart from gaming.

[EazyC]

Well they basically are, they just happen to use the same engine as videogames.

[LordoftheCritics]

It actually is more of a hobby.