Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator, used to work at Frontier, the team behind Elite: Dangerous and Planet Zoo. So when Microsoft and Asobo Studio decided to improve the fidelity of Flight Sim’s recreation of Earth,

While Flight Sim 2024 is adding elements from other genres, it'll do so while also taking less space on your hard drive. Neumann also told us that the new Flight Simulator will take less than one-third of the storage space of MFS 2020 for a more detailed world by using cloud streaming technology.

Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the largest, most performance-heavy games around, but the devs say its sequel might be a bit less taxing to play.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox