People are going to be salty? Bethesda is part of MS now. Bethesda would support PS more than Xbox if they would still release all the games on PS considering that some even release first on PS because of the moneyhatting.

Does that sound like something MS should do? No, obviously not. Especially with Sony buying huge games like FF away from Xbox for years. 

Uhm.....

Did...did nobody tell them that Forza is an Xbox game?

How is Halo Xbox’s most anticipated game when Forza is the most anticipated game overall? Forza is an Xbox game???

I don't know how it controls on a controller, I use an old Logitech Extreme 3D flight stick I bought back when FSX came out. I imagine it works fine on a controller as well. You can turn damage off, pause, increase/decrease simulation rate, slew (move.orient the plane wherever you want), skip to destination, alter the weather however you see fit. There are also lots of assists for navigation and you can hand stuff off to an AI co-pilot. The AI co-pilot can essentially do the whole flight from start to finish while you look out the window. You can even leave the plane on the ground and fly around with the drone camera, no limit.

Helicopters are already available on the marketplace and as free add-ons. But I don't know if you can install free mods on the xbox version (some are free in the market place, those will work) There are also some jets (dlc) yet Asobo is still working on getting supersonic flight to work correctly. There are tons of mods, cars, hot air balloons, Tardis and other contraptions. There are a lot of free scenery enhancements as well, just not sure what you can and can't install on XBox.

You have training, landing challenges and bush missions. On the PC you have add-ons that turn it into a truck simulator style game, hauling passengers or freight to earn money and build your fleet. Or go full sim with Vatsim. But not sure if any of that will come to xbox, 3rd party add-ons.

I only use littlenavmap (navigation add-on) while exploring the world
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/exploring-the-world-in-the-beechcraft-bonanza

Maybe I'll make it back before the XBox launch, over 6,400 airports landed at so far, eastern half of the USA left to go. Which is still a lot since over half the content is in the USA (and most of the rest in Europe). Maybe this link works, has all the content available up to date
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1KUg5jwyT_9k2A9n5IZ99UChlhfVUfO5S&ll=34.85354500989747%2C-29.468666129410103&z=3

Turbulence and cross-wind effect on landing have been majorly turned down to make it easier. Plus more of the sim aspect has taken a backseat to graphics. Bugs with ATC, live traffic, live weather, terrain glitches have all taken a backseat to getting the xbox version working. So hopefully after the 27th the focus will shift back to the sim side and bug fixes.

Beware the footage they have show is very carefully chosen and put in the best light possible (time of day, weather) plus some after effects to make it pop.

For example this shot from the trailer


I've been there and it looked like this

They did fix the floating rock issue (edges sticking out) yet the rest is cherry picking with time and weather settings.

Not that there aren't great places in the game like


Or insane detail


But they do set expectations sky high when the reality of finding your own house is this


And outside USA / Europe quality frequently goes down to


That's mostly on Bing maps, not much Asobo can do about. Bing map coverage is pretty bad and outdated. I dated the photogrammetry data of the USA to 2014 (by looking at construction sites) which is fairly consistent across where I have been (western USA) but some places have far older data.

There is plenty eye candy, and you can (almost) go everywhere (the poles aren't included, ground/water ends at 85 degrees North/South) but don't expect to get a good experience everywhere. Most of northern Russia and China only has very crude sat data. Northern Canada, near Alert Bay

It does make the giant pixels look nice :)

Anyway there are plenty amazing looking places.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.  It answered a bunch of questions I had about the game.  

Forza won’t win GOTY cause it’s coming in November. Halo might if it makes an October release.

Forza was the best game shown at E3, absolutely stunning. Getting that $100 version.

Xbox had the best conference overall, and it wasn't really close at all. Hope to see more game pass surprises though.

Good post! And I'm done with all the insiders. Won't even read what they say if posted here. They lost so much credibility. Bet some will claim they did it on purpose to troll people. 

I used to take an insider's word as 50/50 chance, after the shitshow this year it's been lowered to like 5%

IDK if MS planted some fake news to lure out the moles or what but DAMN it was ironic considering a few of these insiders were shitting on Playstation insiders for being wrong in the past. I can see most of these happening down the road though, especially interested in the Niche spinoff MS IP if that's true.

I've been saying this for ages