Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour
No one said anything about 2PB.
That’s how big this game world is.
Where did that number come from?
It’s mentioned here: flightsimulator.com/msfs2024-preorder-now-availab…
”Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) already had over two petabytes of data on the cloud. That was the whole world data.
Ah well, that does make more sense then. I hope they have an offline mode as well.
Also it seems like they’d be better off making it a game streaming service entirely and that would remove the need for all that bandwidth…
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
That’s how big this game world is.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Where did that number come from?
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
It’s mentioned here: flightsimulator.com/msfs2024-preorder-now-availab…
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Ah well, that does make more sense then. I hope they have an offline mode as well.
Also it seems like they’d be better off making it a game streaming service entirely and that would remove the need for all that bandwidth…