Microsoft Flight Sim head says bringing it to PS5 was his idea, believes it started the ‘avalanche of Xbox titles coming to PS5’ | VGC

The head of Microsoft Flight Simulator says the idea to bring the game to PlayStation 5 was his, and that he believes it was the catalyst for all the other Xbox titles being released on Sony’s console.

In an interview with XDA Developers, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann said he originally pitched a PS5 version of Flight Simulator 2024 after the decision had been made to drastically cut down the game’s file size and stream most of the data through the cloud.

According to Neumann, the decision to greatly reduce the file size opened up the possibility of porting it to other systems, but Xbox was originally against the idea of bringing it to PS5.

“It was my idea, actually,” he recalled. “With Flight Simulator 2020, we came out on PC first in August 2020. One year later, we shipped it on Xbox, and we found millions and millions of new fans on Xbox that had never seen the flight sim because they’re just not PC gamers. A lot of them thought it was great, and a lot…