YES - Maccosim has just released an update for their EGCC Manchester scenery (available on Marketplace) to comply with Xbox performance requirements. Announced on their Discord here: https://discord.com/channels/774924947357302804/778208056130666526
This probably won’t be necessary for all sceneries or aircraft, but it shows that Asobo/Xbox are checking each one just in case.
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Depends on the resolution maybe? 1080-60fps? They have not specified series x or series x specifically yet but hopefully higher frame rates on series x than series s!
Which is equivalent to a Gen 9 intel, which is about right because the hardware would have been specified a couple of years ago.
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Console CPU’s are totally different to PC CPU’s, that’s why they’re not interchangeable. They work in different ways and a smaller capacity console CPU can pack the same punch as a much larger capacity PC CPU.
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Indeed. Still a good CPU, and still better than the average gaming system out in the wild. Just not on the bleeding edge like a Ryzen 5000 or 11th gen Intel.
They’re not the same. They share the same architecture and features for the most part, but most are SOCs, so your GPU is also built onboard in a proprietary system for that particular console. Although the performance and capability is (as I said “roughly”) the same as a Ryzen 3800 or so. The big advantage though is that the console isn’t running Windows 10 with its 34255324 background services, a bunch of system tray apps, etc so it can do its work much more efficiently.
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Console CPU’s can also use VRAM for even more efficiency.
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Indeed. GDDR6 is a huge improvement in speed over the DDR4 we currently have in PCs.
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A PC can do a lot more than a console tho. Its not just a mass-product-gaming-machine. So please stop with the price argument.
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Who buys a games console to edit videos, for example? You don’t buy a coffee percolator if you want to make your own ice cream. A PC is a piece of office equipment, and a gaming PC is a piece of office equipment with performance parts plugged in - like the family saloon that some guy has fitted with a turbo kit, nitrous, race suspension and brakes. It looks and sounds great, and it goes like the wind, but it’s not going to set a new lap record at Le Mans. For that you need a purpose-built, dedicated race car, and THAT is what the Xbox Series X is compared to a gaming PC.
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This statement is very wrong. On consoles, VRAM and RAM are combined into one. My GPU for example has 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM and 32 GB of RAM. That’s more than any next gen consoles. See, on PC RAM and VRAM are separate. They work separately and do their respective processes separately*. Your comparison of GDDR6 to DDR4 is quite irrelevant considering both are different types of memory. I guarantee you that almost all GPUs in gaming PCs now have at least GDDR5 VRAM with the new ones having GDDR6 or better. It’s impossible for a PC do have better than DDR4 RAM considering DDR5 isn’t on the market yet and really doesn’t even exist yet. The truth is that Xbox series X is not objectively better than mid-high end PCs performance wise. The series X is roughly equivalent to a 2070 for the GPU, which is last gen hardware in the PC market. Background processes are kind of irrelevant as well when it comes to performance unless you’re running like under 8 GB of RAM on a really low end system or have malware installed. Right now, MSFS relies heavily on single threaded performance, so background processes have plenty of cores to work with as long as you running at least a quad core hyperthreading processor.
*I’m aware of direct storage technology, but that primarily impacts loading times and is coming to PC soon.
Except on this forum.. people tend to complain here, about anything under 35 
New users and upgraders are the actual market, they will bring the money in.. Consider the current huge cost difference. I’m sitting at 20Fps currently.. on a $1300 dollar laptop. How many people are on 20xx ? it would do 24FpS.. I’d gladly pay $600 for a device that can give me 30 FpS, with similar quality, whether that would be a “console” or not. The XBox GPU compare to 3080 has about half the transistors and shaders.. 2/3 the energy. So it’s kind of mid range. It will do.. and outperform 20xx boards. And raytracing ? maybe it will come.. one day.. but you’ll have an XBox-Y to support it.. or XBox-Z..
It’s indeed inferiour to top range GPU boards for PC.. but this performance is not unplayable.. i’ve 8 TFLOPS, this thing has 12.. so it is far better ! And my laptop is 2x the price.
“Nvidia claimed that the RTX 3080 is capable of 29.7 TFLOPs, compared to the 12 TFLOPs on the Xbox Series X and 10.2 PlayStation 5.”
These RTX GPU’s are all fantastic, except for this: https://www.techradar.com/news/cant-buy-a-new-gpu-blame-cryptominers-who-bought-25-of-them
700,000 GPUs bought by data miners in the first quarter of 2021!
The data miners are paying 3 times more than gamers ever did for GPU’s and now HDD’s as well.
PC Gaming is finished, it’s time to move on.
The console version only running at 30fps would be an interesting choice, considering that all the XBox trailers are in 60 fps.
absolutely, not everyone is willing to pay at least 2000 for a similar pc.
on the downside its a closed system, you can not do the same as on pc with addons, file modding etc.
as so ever both have pros and cons, and are mainly aimed at different people too,
the gamertypes will find xbox great, the simflyers will be on pc (ofcourse there will be
overlap too). a bigger public is bound the be good for sustainability, we will see how that goes.
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Sorry, I don’t know, but maybe you can find a clue here?
And I am shure it is an good idea to have a bottle of this before starting your exercises 
It’s a shame that whenever Xbox is mentioned in a thread that some people can’t help but turn it into a PC vs Xbox debate.
Why is there so much negativity towards those who wish to fly the simulator on Xbox?
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Do we still think there will be a Xbox beta before release?
I honestly don’t know. Maybe they are jealous they have bought a 2000 dollar PC while we on Xbox can get as good performance with a price of 500$ for a series x
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I know it was mentioned by the dev team, however in one of the more recent Q&A sessions Jorg seemed a little unsure I think.
With release so soon now I think a beta is unlikely, as much as I’d love some early access, especially with it sat there, pre loaded and ready to go!
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Do you think there will be early access for those who preordered?