Rumors are circulating again about the next Xbox first-party game to be ported to the PlayStation 5. It could be one of the most iconic (if rather niche): Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Yesterday, leaker extas1s suggested that it would be Forza Horizon 5. However, an earlier leak from January mentioned Microsoft Flight Simulator and was right about everything he said at the time.
Xbox will likely announce its multiplatform plans late next month or closer to the end of the fiscal year. ID Software’s next game will no longer be exclusive to Xbox and will be cross-platform. Bethesda’s next exclusive games are also expected to be cross-platform.
Microsoft Flight Simulator will be cross-platform, and some other older first-party games will be cross-platform as well. Indiana Jones is a bit odd because he’s fully modeled after Harrison Ford, but voiced by Troy Baker. Most of the game is also in 1st person, including the whip fights. And Hideo Kojima is finally making a movie.
DOOM: The Dark Ages turned out to be cross-platform, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a first-person game (except for rare cases during interaction with the environment) featuring Harrison Ford’s likeness and Troy Baker’s voiceover. A few days after the leak, PlayStation also announced a partnership with Hideo Kojima for a new stealth IP called Physint, which will include the production of a game and a movie.
If the leaker is also right about Microsoft Flight Simulator, the question is whether the “old” 2020 game will be ported or the new installment, which is scheduled to be released on November 19. This new entry will offer several new mission types, new aircraft types, more environmental features (snow and tornadoes), a full-fledged season system, improved physics, better performance with multithreading, and even the ability to get out of the plane and walk around the environment, as recently confirmed to PC Gamer.
Whether Microsoft Flight Simulator or Forza Horizon 5 come to PlayStation 5 first, Xbox’s multiplatform policy suggests both will make it eventually, and if Sea of Thieves’ success is any indication, they too could succeed.
