Throughout its showcase at Tokyo Sport Present 2025, Xbox introduced the discharge of a significant new replace for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Dubbed World Replace 20: Japan, the replace was launched totally free throughout PC and Xbox sequence X/S, and was showcased with a trailer which you’ll be able to try beneath.
Microsoft has confirmed that, to make World Replace 20: Japan, developer Asobo Studio labored with Bing Maps and Gaya to make sure that the fantastic thing about Japan is precisely captured. The replace brings with it 23 factors of curiosity that had been created utilizing up to date photogrammetry and triangulated irregular community (TIN) floor texturing. Among the new cities up to date througthis are Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka, Sapporo and Tokyo.
There are additionally 67 different factors of curiosity that embrace some iconic areas from Japan, like Osaka Fort, Kaniada Bridge, Shosanbetsu Observatory, Enoshima Sea Candle and Fukuoka Tower.
Among the main airports have been specifically handcrafted in World Replace 20: Japan in collaboration with Gaya. These are the Hokkaido Spaceport, Kitakyushu Airport, Rishri Airport, Sado Airport, and Satsuma Iōjima Airport. These airports vary from being an aerospace park on the island of Hokkaido, to a man-made island, and even a non-public single asphalt runway airfield in a village.
“Japan is a nation of magnificence and intrigue, crammed with breathtaking vistas of towering mountains, iconic structure, and famend cities,” wrote the corporate in its announcement of World Replace 20: Japan. “The nation beholds among the world’s most alluring and well-known sights, together with Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain, Osaka Fort, a revered historic monument, and hovering skylines all through Tokyo, Kyoto, Sapporo, and different metropolises.”
“World Replace 20 reveals Japan in gorgeous, vibrant element—and the discharge comes with an awesome choice of missions all through this storied nation to immerse Microsoft Flight Simulator aviators in its magnificence and historical past.”
For gamers in search of extra structured content material, World Replace 20: Japan additionally brings with it new missions showcasing among the new areas which have been redone. These embrace new discovery flights specializing in the Chubu-Sangaku Nationwide Park, piloting exams at Ōmura Airport with sturdy wind, and a discovery flight across the Makuhari Messe advanced. There’s additionally a brand new low altitude problem at Tsushima Island, in addition to a rally race problem at Setonaikai Nationwide Park.
Microsoft had lately confirmed that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 can also be making its option to PS5. Together with this launch, the corporate additionally confirmed that the title will assist VR gaming by means of PlayStation VR2 in 2026. The PS5 model of the sport is slated for launch on December 8.
The PS5 launch will make use of quite a few PS5 options, particularly relating to the DualSense controller. This contains assist for the controller’s adaptive set off each once you’re on the bottom, reflecting the feel of the floor, in addition to once you’re hovering by means of the air, providing sloped resistance relying in your pace and altitude. The title may also assist gyro controls on the PS5.
Pre-ordering Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on PS5 additionally brings with it a bonus within the type of the Northrop T38-A Talon plane.
