Yeah, I don’t know what you guys are on about, you are talking like this wasn’t released about 11 months ago on PC with the global streaming feature and works fine on a hard drive. On a side note, if anyone is really interested in flight simulation, a console isn’t the way to go, there’s already hundred and hundreds of free and payware addons for this sim, which apart from a small selection of payware isn’t going to be available on console, plus far more hardware limitations too.

Yeah, I know it's been out on PC awhile, I tried it on Game pass, a service that came from consoles to PC I believe :) Anyway, your'e fine, PC will have better version by virtue of PC's power of diminishing returns and brute force . But honestly, how many people buy 3080's? assuming they can get one.

My point. MS and Sony didn't spend a large chunk of the console budget on NVMe SSD's , because they barely make a difference. As for flight sim, who knows? Firstly, we haven't seen the Series X version yet, and secondly, it's quite feasible the PC version would run better with NVme SSd's.

With the inclusion of DX12 ultimate and the Direct storage API it's quite reasonable I Think, to suggest the the PC will hold back game design in this particular area since All NVMe on console Vs some NVMe on PC obviously restricts developers. Further, suggesting only initial load times benefit from such fast storage is maybe a tad disingenuous, is it not.

@Bender6502: listen. It's extremely well-known how MSFS works in terms of storage and the volume of data it moves at any given time due to how much it's modded. It's simply too little to benefit in any form from direct storage. You may say we don't know all you want, but we simply do.

As for why the sim will always be superior on PC, it's not even due to that. It's due to user-made content which the Xbox version does not support, as it supports only what is included in the official marketplace, which is 99% payware and only very few select free things.

While users on Xbox will be stuck with additional airports and aircraft you have to pay for and a few "select" freeware, PC users can access literally thousands of quality user-created airports, liveries, and more.

While for most of the airports xbox users are stuck with the default procedurally-generated ones unless they buy an add-on (and for 90% of airports payware add-ons don't exist), PC users can find a much, much better looking (and more realistic) user-made version.

For instance (an example among thousands) if you go to Vilnius airport, on Xbox it'll look like this (nothing like the real one besides the general horizontal shape of the building and the approximate position of the gates).
https://i.imgur.com/AcLCZK3...

On PC, you can download a small package and it'll look like this. For free.
https://i.imgur.com/RahcMvI...

Let's not talk about the many external utilities that are exclusive to PC, like Navigraph, LittleNavMap and many others.

This may be new for console players, but there certainly are many who knows MSFS in and out. It's not really a mystery anymore.