Video games are big, and they’ve kept getting bigger. So it’s always nice to see devs find ways to make a reduction in their storage imprint like theMicrosoft Flight Simulatorteam has with v1.16.2.0.
In itsrelease notesfor an update on May 25, theMicrosoft Flight Simulatorteam notes it has performed some optimizations for the initial full download of the game. Now, the base game should be only 83 GB in size, rather than over 170 GB.
That’s a boon for anyone trying to save on storage space right now, especially as storage solutions can be fraught.Microsoft Flight Simulatorhasn’t hit the Xbox Series X or S just yet, but when it does, having a smaller impact on the file storage will be pretty handy. Thoseexpansion cardsdon’t grow on trees, you know.
Microsoft’s beefy flight sim has been getting steady updates since its launch last year, adding crafted locales and, of course,virtual reality. I’m absolutely terrible at flying anything in it, but the tech behind the sim has resulted in some amazing things, liketracking real-life storms from a virtual cockpit.
