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Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Flight Simulator has garnered not only the biggest launch in the series' 38-year history, but has also become the biggest game launch on Xbox Game Pass for PC history.
The announcement on Xbox Wire reveals that over a million unique pilots have taken to the skies since the game's launch a couple of weeks ago, and those players have clocked up an impressive 26 million flights and 1 billion miles to date in the virtual skies.
The game's official Twitter account also put out an interesting inforgraphic revealing that the most popular airport fans have landed in so far being the John F Kennedy International airport in New York and the most popular aircraft being the Daher TBM 930.
And to think, this is just the beginning. ✈ï¸https://t.co/00c10hTPkF
Thank you so much. #MSFSCommunity #MicrosoftFlightSimulator pic.twitter.com/MgIJlE4niq
— Microsoft Flight Simulator (@MSFSofficial) September 3, 2020
You can check out a video celebrating the milestone below. Microsoft Flight Simulator is out now on PC and Xbox Game Pass for PC (Beta) and is expected to come to Xbox consoles too at some point in the future.
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