Yet another previously Xbox console-exclusive game is making its way to PlayStation, with Microsoft announcing during today’s Sony State of Play event that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to PS5 on December 8, 2025. What’s more is that at some point in 2026, through a free update, the game will also get support to be playable through PS VR2.
Today’s announcement confirms what we’ve been hearing for months now through multiple rumours that the next game to make the jump from an Xbox console-exclusive to PS5 would be Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Even just last week, there was a new rumour circulating that Flight Sim was going to make its PlayStation debut sometime soon.
Now, not only do we know that Flight Simulator 2024 is making the trip, the fact that it’ll have PS VR2 support means that potentially, the best way to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on consoles in, say, a year’s time (depending on when the update arrives), will be on a PS5 with a PS VR2 headset.
“With up to 125 highly detailed aircraft, we have developed the largest and most diverse fleet ever assembled for a flight simulator,” writes Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator at Xbox Game Studios in a PlayStation Blog post.
“We have an incredibly wide range of aircraft: nimble ultralights, a wide variety of general aviation aircraft, famous bush trip planes, rotorcraft, eVTOLs, airships, steerable balloons, all the way to sleek business jets, a fleet of narrow and wide-body airliners and even heavy military transporters and fighter jets.”
This new version will also take advantage of the DualSense controllers haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, and it’ll come with support for gyro controls to immerse you even more if you don’t have a full flight-stick setup.
Now that Flight Simulator is confirmed, and we’ve already seen the likes of Forza and Gears of War make their way to PlayStation, we’re left waiting on games like Starfield, and of course, Halo. At this point, it just feels like it’s a matter of time until all of Xbox’s first-party games are released on PlayStation a year after they are released on Xbox, if they don’t just make them simultaneous releases.