I hadn't heard this was coming:

https://www.pcgamer.com/see-the-shiny-new-trailer-for-microsoft-flight-simulator-coming-in-2020/

What an interesting coincidence indeed. First Microprose and now Microsoft announcing a new flight sim title.

Graphics are stunning.

They only reference XBox, but I think that might just be Microsoft's gaming group, and I hope it will also be available for the PC.

There are also references to Azure AI, which makes me wonder if it will need a constant online connection.

It is going to be released on BOTH platforms. It will be in the Xbox Live Pass from Day one. (Xbox Live Pass for PC is coming... I guess this will be one of their new games)
No real details were released, just the video.

Best forum comment on saw on this from someone named Chris:

That's hilarious! (It's funny 'cause it's true...)

There should also be a mod for things like the drunken idiot passenger disrupting the flight and the emotional support animal that goes on a rampage. Something like a spitting llama.

I don't know if any of us have a computer powerful enough to run this yet.

That came to my mind, thinking back on FSX. But this new one is supposed to work on XBox, so I gotta figure they'll optimize around that hardware?

Looks nice. A big (IMO) problem with FSX was that it couldn't fully take advantage of multi-core cpu's. Assuming this can (and why wouldn't it be able to), that should help the performance. I'm going to stay optimistic. I might even consider upgrading this seven-year old machine.

LOL
It would have internet activation so you had to start playing at 6am, just to have a patch delay that takes 12 hours.

I hope it uses some sort of new engine that is optimized. To this day, even with a newer computer multiple generations passed FSX's release year I still can't run that sim in a way that I consider acceptable. Thus far my best Microsoft flight simulator experience has been with FS2004.

I hadn't heard about the Microprose sim. What's that?

YES, YES, YES!

I'd hoped for years they'd just put it to bed for a while so they could build a whole new sim from scratch. FSX, as cool as it was (well, still is I guess) really was a pile of code spaghetti...

I'd lost all hope years ago.

Now I have to start planning my first gaming PC build in years - MSFS was primary reason I used to build them, all other gaming was just a bonus.

I've not been much of a gamer for years because of the absence of new versions of MSFS...

Something tells me they've been working on this for a VERY long time.

I can't stop watching this video, I just keep noticing more and more things...

Personnally I've noticed that for once, there is french planes in a base version of a sim, at least we see them in the trailer. Robin DR.400 (interior at 48s), Mudry CAP 10 (aerobatic plane) and Socata TBM. CAP 10 and DR.400 are very good choices for AI in Europe.

The graphics look real...

What I wouldn't give to be able to fly around such detailed terrain Superman style in VR.

You can in Google Earth VR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCrkZOx5Q1M

Assuming this new MSFS doesn't turn out like crap we're going to need a new forum here at SimHQ!

what they need to improved from FSX IMO:

-slopped runways
-better ATC
-better GROUND handling/feeling
-better use of 2020 hardware
-very moddable, be it free or by 3rd party user
-better weather/atmosphere as a whole