Microsoft Flight Simulator Has a Massive 150GB Install

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Microsoft has revealed the PC system requirements for Flight Simulator, and it requires a huge 150GB of harddrive space.
While install sizes have been steadily increasing over the years
this places Microsoft Flight Simulator among the very largest on PC. For comparison
this is the same size as Red Dead Redemption 2’s PC port, although still under Modern Warfare’s colossal 175GB install.That world is drawn from Bing map data
of which it has access to two petabytes (two million gigabytes) of
streaming via an internet connection. So even that 150GB isn’t all the data that
Microsoft Flight Simulator uses to create its world, weather, and flight mechanics.
In addition to hard drive space the system requirements also request a
minimum of 5 mbps of bandwidth (50 mbps ideally), indicating that data streaming is a vital part of the game.

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