I don't have sufficient drive space for 2 sims with all of my addons, so installing fs24 will mean removing fs20 for me and a lot of others, I guess. My FS drive contains nearly 2 TB and I have a second 1 TB with addons I don't often use along with some backups.

It will be a shift from fs20 to fs24 silently as both will be compatible with literally all the goods.. its like moving gradually from Win 10 to Win 11 it is just the consideration when to hop the boat imho. The sweet habitable spot that said, all influenced by backward compatibility aspects.

I suspect that as soon as MSFS 2024 hits the stores, MSFS 2020 is gonna be tiny receding speck in the back mirror. 

I'll buy MSFS 2024 on release date, and will never use MSFS 2020 again.

2 hours ago, cianpars said:

I don't have sufficient drive space for 2 sims with all of my addons,

that's why all my addons will be made available again for MSFS 2024 via msfs addons linker with no need to keep them twice.

I'm not in any hurry to jump trains, instead, I'm just going to wait for the new sim to mature with most issues ironed out and all my favorite BS airplanes updated. FS2020 in its current state is a simmers dream come true, so why hurry.

Edited May 28, 20242 yr by CarlosF

5 hours ago, Nuno Pinto said:

Yep. As with all previous versions... FS2000, 2002, FS9 (2004), FSX...

And previous versions will be quickly abandoned again as with previous versions. History repeats, what's new? 😇

Can't wait for people to complain to developers 4 years from now that no one develops for MSFS any longer and everyone is focusing on MSFS24. 😉

4 hours ago, Ricardo41 said:

I suspect that as soon as MSFS 2024 hits the stores, MSFS 2020 is gonna be tiny receding speck in the back mirror. 

I'll buy MSFS 2024 on release date, and will never use MSFS 2020 again.

Exactly this. 

I do not see a rationale for having two flight simulators from the same developers, compatible with the same addons, planes, and scenery, being maintained side-by-side indefinitely. Is there anything we can currently do in MS2020 that we will not be able to do in 2024? I may be wrong, but it is difficult to imagine both sims coexisting for a very long period of time.

Edited May 28, 20242 yr by cobalt

13 hours ago, jwhak said:

Anything on the horizon or did all the developers just hit the brakes after Sim Update 15?

Every new version of MSFS since inception seems to stress the limits of systems in use, ruiring systems upgrades to find satisfactory performence. That in-and-of-itself has prolonged the life of the previous of the MS sim, and in cases, MS sims (plural).  So I believe 2020 will have plenty of life, especially given today's prevailing GPU prices.

Yeah, I don't have the room or energy to maintain 2 sims. I am quietly excited for 2024 though. I like the gamification idea of having a career (however if that's locked to default aircraft I won't be too happy). I also like the sound of them improving close up details like cliff and canyon faces & ground tessellation - as bush flying is my favourite, seeing something as simple as tyre tracks i mud/snow will add immersion. The performance improvements would also be very welcome.

That said I'm pretty happy with 2020 atm. And I certainly won't be diving in head first without first seeing the general consensus. I'll probably give it a month or so, cus the first week or two will surely be mostly "new flight sim" hype where everything is new and exciting.

I totally expect lots of bugs on release day though, especially with 3rd party aircraft and scenery.

Edited May 28, 20242 yr by s0cks

I'm gonna hold myself on 2024 cause MS2020 was a heck of a ride and I still feel like MS2020 is not fully complete yet and being used to it's max potential that I feel some developers could complete.

 

14 hours ago, jwhak said:

Anything on the horizon or did all the developers just hit the brakes after Sim Update 15?

 

Black Square Starship

FSW Lancair Legacy and Beechcraft Sierra

SWS RV8 analog/glass (and updates to bring their RV14 and 10 fleet to the new G3X)

SWS Kodiak 900 (and tbm 910/960)

Pilot's C90 King air

FSReborn Phenom 300

PMDG B777

FlightFX P180 Piaggio

FlightFX C750 Citation X

FlightFX CL35 Challenger

A2A Piper Aerostar (I believe)

Digital Flight Dynamics A350 (freeware - payware from inibuilds)

FBW A380 (freeware)

Bluebird B757

Xtreme Prototypes Lear 24/25

 

There's a ton more that I can't think of....

 

 

Ill decide when i see more previews and get a sense of the overall direction of the new sim. If its appealing to me its a day one purchase and system upgrade.

A lot of people here have indicated that they will take a wait and see, or plan on not going to 2024, but I predict that on day one of release, the servers will be swamped with people trying to buy it. 

I will be one of them. 

No point getting on Day 1 like it has been mentioned servers will be rough like they were when 2020 released it took a lot of people a couple of days to get it fully downloaded. Then aircrafts like the PMDG, Fenix might not even be ready worse case scenario for like a month who knows. Then you have the bugs that release with 2024. Lets hope weather is not one of the bugs like it was when 2020 released.