Microsoft brings "Flight Simulator 2024" to the Playstation 5

Microsoft is giving away another crown jewel: "Flight Simulator 2024" is coming to Playstation 5, and support for PS VR 2 is also planned.

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Sep 25, 2025 at 8:56 am CEST

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Daniel Herbig

Microsoft is releasing its “Flight Simulator 2024” on the Playstation. Owners of Playstation 5 will be able to fly on the Sony console from 8 December, the Japanese company announced on Wednesday evening during a “State of Play” livestream.

In a blog entry, the developers of “Flight Simulator” promise, among other things, support for Sony's Dualsense controller: different ground surfaces should lead to noticeably different resistances in the adaptive triggers, and air traffic control announcements will be played back via the gamepad's speakers. Support for Sony's PS VR2 headset is even planned. However, the corresponding update will not be released until 2026.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 was one of the few remaining in-house developments from the Xbox teams that were not available on Playstation. Last year, Microsoft initiated a change in strategy and began bringing its former exclusive titles to the Playstation competition from Sony.

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Xbox games on the Playstation

First came “Sea of Thieves,” “Hi-Fi Rush,” “Pentiment,” and “Grounded” on the Playstation, followed later by the open-world racing game “Forza Horizon 5,” among others. The remaster of “Gears of War” was released directly on the Sony console. Starfield' and 'Avowed', among others, are still not on the Playstation.

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Since the takeover of Activision, Microsoft is the largest games publisher in the world. Sources of income are the distribution of games and the sale of the Game Pass rather than the Xbox console itself, especially as the Microsoft console was selling significantly worse than the Playstation even before the change in strategy.

Microsoft has repeatedly emphasized that there will still be further Xbox generations. Irrespective of this, Microsoft wants to define the Xbox more as a flexible platform that can be accessed from all devices—for example, for example via cloud gaming on mobile phones or mobile consoles such as the Xbox Ally.