I want a cross country driving game that goes into scope like this.

This is really looking good. I'm pretty hyped for this. Played a load of it on PC when I was young :)
But this will look amazing on my 86'' and Xbox One X.

Not hyped but I am interested, I just want to fly around the world. I am also a preview member and the game will adapt to the weather in real time...So it is raining in Paris in real, then it will also be raining in the game in Paris. I expect it to be an next gen only title.

Well they already said it will be on Xbox One? What do you mean by "next gen"?

It's been over 10 years since I last played MS Flight simulator X, which came out in 2006! I've always been a fan of flight simulator and a new release meant upgrading my PC. The death of MS flight simulator also meant me abandoning PC as my primary platform.

Looking at my screenshots, it didn't look that bad for a 2006 title





Look at those frame rates though and it was only 1280x1024. Cities were pretty ugly with only a few buildings modeled while the frame rate would go below 10 fps. By the time the next one comes out it's been almost 15 years, it should look better!

Real time weather was already in FSX. Flying around the world was a great way to discover things I never knew existed like a giant lake in Africa. It will be fun to fly around the world again, depending on how well my laptop with GTX 1060 can handle it. The SSD should help alot anyway. The biggest problem with fsx was setting the target frame rate low enough so the game had enough time to load and generate the next part of the landscape or you would fly into flat untextured nothingness.

Game is very bold. But not for me. I have no interest in learnign all thecnical stuff in order to flight. I played a flight simulator back in the day and wasn't able to take a plane off the airport, dropped.

Game size: 2 Petabytes+ (2048 Terabytes+). We are already witnessing things that can only be done through cloud gaming.

Where did they say XBox One?

XBox consoles and earliest release date is 2020 for windows 10. By the time it comes to any XBox consoles the next gen consoles are out, so likely it's a next gen XBox console title. But perhaps there will be a streaming version which you can stream to XBox One etc. Latency won't be much of a problem with a flight sim. It might actually be better to stream the game as downloading the data to render locally will take a lot more bandwidth.

I wonder if I get to crash a 747 into my own house, err I mean land a water plane on the river next to my house :)

Pretty much everywhere including the game page itself...
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/microsoft-flight-simulator

Coming to "Xbox One" and Windows PC". 

Also, 747 is so yesterday Go for an A380! And it is is also probably the first thing I will try :)

Yeah I don't think it will be released on Xbox One. I remember reading that they haven't even started developing the console version, so if we're lucky we might get an Xbox version in 2021. If they're doing an X1 version, performance is probably pretty bad, so I don't really see a point in doing that. Just release in on Scarlett.