Ok so bear with me here before the pitchforks come wizzing through my screen 
So i’ve recently reinstalled MSFS on the Xbox because I fancied some flying downstairs rather than being stuck on my PC all the time.
Anyhoo, I was struck upon getting it all loaded up how great the graphics where. There has obviously been a lot of improvements from when i last played, including better performance enhancing updates from third parties.
I flew, mount cook, New York, South UK, Vegas, tried in all weathers, sunset and early evening and I was honestly blown away.
Now, to set the scene a bit, I have MSFS on PC, which was my go too machine to play this. I have lots of addons, lots of freeware and of course you can tweak the performance. Ive also had lots of issues the last several months.
But i found the fidelity of what I was presented on xbox much nicer. Clouds, fog and particle effects especially looked good, and for some reason the bing map textures looked a lot better too.
So why do I feel that the xbox is better? Why am i drawn to playing it downstairs rather than upstairs? Ive also been playing about this morning on PC, trying to emulate the look im getting on xbox and not really succeeding.
Is it because the sim is locked on xbox and subconciously you are not worried about squeezing every inch of performance out of it by going to settings, so you just sit an enjoy?
I’m managing 40+ fps with mid-high-ultra settings, but you know what, the environment just feels washed out on PC, the clouds feel a bit more pixelated, the mist and fog not as effective.
Sure the xbox has some downsides, sometimes you get pop in and there’s not as much addons available, even addons ive purchased in the marketplace on PC that I cant install, and of course for some reason i cant uninstall parts of the package like the airbus liveries. Ive also had a few more CTDs than ive had on PC, but otherwise im genuinely impressed.
Am i mad? I should really post some screens shouldnt i…ok I have one or two recents (compression depending)
xbox
PC
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) that we’d be experiencing what we have now , on the the technology front as regards sims / gaming , I probably would have recommended they get a mental health check !! 